shinobicyrus:

shhhhimwatchingthis:

You want to know why Inigo Montoya remains such an iconic and beloved character even 35 years after the Princess Bride came out?

It’s because he’s one of the few characters in fiction who has a story where he has dedicated his life to revenge, his whole motivation is about getting revenge….and he gets it! and then he isn’t empty or despairing! he doesn’t regret it! he’s totally satisfied!

because so many stories about revenge or rage are about characters “seeing the futility of their actions” or learning “their desire for revenge has only made them the monsters they hated” FUCK THAT.

Inigo Montoya kills the man who kills his father, is allowed to live in the narrative after and be happy about it and it is so satisfying. it’s fantastic. it’s iconic.

let more characters rage against the world, bring it down with bloodied hands, and let them be FUCKING RIGHT about it. Let them celebrate their success with sharp grins, and let them live happy, full lives where they always remain proud/fulfilled for what they’ve done

Another thing that set Inigo Montoya apart from other characters with vengeance arcs is that Inigo’s vengeance drove him but it didn’t consume him. He was wronged and wanted - needed that injustice to be corrected - but his vengeance was focused. Rather than taking his pain out on the whole world, Inigo was a charming, pleasant, good-humored person that treated everyone respectfully, even folks he was fighting. He even asks politely to people he meets about any extra digits they may have.

Would a bitter, angry, vengeance-consumed man swear on the life of his father and help a guy he was planning to duel, then give him time to catch his breath? Would he hand his sword over to his future opponent to lovingly show off his late-father’s skill as a swordmaker?

“You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.”

I think part of what makes Inigo so iconic and beloved is because while vengeance was his story, it wasn’t who he was, so when he achieved his vengeance it was less an emptiness and more of a satisfaction, a story completed, a wrong made right, and a man suddenly baffled at the possibilities before him, not sure what his next story would be.

stormclouds-chainmail:

archerestarcher:

doggendoodle:

dropthedemiurge:

max1461:

max1461:

ten years of fighting and when shit hits the fan tumblr instantly has reddit’s back. the greatest enemies to lovers story ever told.

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Oops, my hand slipped–

humanizations of websites have returned. nature is healing, capitalism is the virus

Awww they’re matching

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Image 1: Two screenshots of Tumblr reblogs with added tags. The first reblog by sarah-dipitous has tags that read: #this was them wearily showing up at our door because they ‘didn’t know where else to go’ #and we said ‘who did this to you?’ with a protective ferocity we didn’t know we felt

Image 2: The second reblog by anthonyampersand has tags that read: #they’re having the nastiest hurtcomfort sex ever rn

Image 3: a two panel comic. Panel 1 has a person who has been beaten up and has flames around their feet and lightning behind them leaning around a door saying, “Damn, sorry, I … I didn’t know where else to go… Panel 2 has a person with folded arms and a stern expression saying, “Who did this to you?”. They both have patches on their jackets. The first person’s has the Reddit logo with the text, “I hate Tumblr. The second person’s has the Tumblr logo with the text, “I hate Reddit.”

Image 4 and 5: a close up of the two patches.

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headspace-hotel:

uglymelon:

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

Evil biology facts that fill me with Fear :)

hey, I heard y’all like evil biology facts like knowledge about horse blood types.

well! today I was researching alternative biochemistries extraterrestrial life could use and. man. I think Earth life is fucked up enough for me thanks

  • biological dark matter. WHAT DO YOU MEAN MY BLOOD HAS DNA IN IT FROM NO KNOWN SOURCE. YOU CAN’T JUST SAY THAT COME BACK HERE
  • One specific cave that has been sealed for 5.5 million years and has developed an ecosystem completely dependent on chemosynthetic bacteria.
  • Was anybody going to tell me that bacteria have decided iron is yummy and are eating the Titanic, or was I supposed to just read that myself
  • Terrible Berry (yes, that’s what the genus name means). This whole thing is so fucked up. These scientists were testing whether radiation could be used to kill pathogens in food, so they dosed a tin of meat with enough radiation to kill any known living organism (as one does) but guess what, it still fucking spoiled because of THIS BASTARD FUCKER.
  • (seriously, why is it like this? WHY has a bacterium evolved to chill in radioactive waste like it’s a soothing Jacuzzi tub? What does it know that we don’t know?)
  • (ANSWERS. I WANT ANSWERS, YOU CHERNOBYL ASS BITCH.)
  • Cursed worm, which has no mouth or digestive system and depends entirely on five (5) different species of bacteria, which consume hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen monoxide, and carbon monoxide, for food. How do you, a worm, even…figure out how to do…all that?
  • Bone worms. At least they like their bones already dead. I still could have gone without knowing this was a thing.
  • “Oh, parasitic plant, that sounds c—WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING”
  • I am like half convinced this is made up. Seriously, bacteria grow their own electrical wires and we just let them?

To clarify

Evil (affectionate and admiring)

They took the unkillable bacterium and put a Disney song inside of it.

“In 2003, U.S. scientists demonstrated D. radiodurans could be used as a means of information storage that might survive a nuclear catastrophe. They translated the song “It’s a Small World” into a series of DNA segments 150 base pairs long, inserted these into the bacteria, and were able to retrieve them without errors 100 bacterial generations later.”

*opens worldbuilding notebook* *takes further notes*