ALL PHOTOS ARE CURRENTLY PART OF THE SMITHSONIAN CAPTAIN AMERICA EXHIBIT. 1. Cpt. Steve Rogers and Agent Margaret “Peggy” Carter (Italy, November 1943). 2. Members of the Howling Commandos. From left to right: Cpl. Jacques “Frenchie” Dernier, Cpl. Timothy Alyosius “Dum Dum” Dugan, Lt. James Montgomery Falsworth, Sgt. James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes (Poland, February 1944). 3. Cpt. Rogers and Sgt. Barnes return from the HYDRA labor camp (Italy, November 1943). 4. The Howling Commandos. From left to right: Pvt. James Morita, Cpl. Jacques “Frenchie” Dernier, Cpl. Timothy Alyosius “Dum Dum” Dugan, Lt. James Montgomery Falsworth, Sgt. James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes, Pvt. Gabriel “Gabe” Jones (Italy, November 1943). 5. The Howling Commandos (Italy, November 1943). 6. Cpt. Steve Rogers and Sgt. James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes (Italy, November 1943). [part i]
Lotr headcanon, having lots of patches on your clothes is fashionable in the Shire. The more patches, the cooler you are. Especially if it’s a lot of different fabrics. It’s common to trade patches with friends and family, and it’s usually treated with high sentimental value. It’s like carrying a piece of someone with you.
While the hobbits are on the quest, their clothes get holes and such. This leads Sam and Frodo to nab small things from the other members of the fellowship, like handkerchiefs or anything too worn for use, to use as patches. Merry and Pippin aren’t so courteous, and cut pieces from the fellowship’s clothes while they sleep.
Of course, the hobbits exchange patches amongst themselves while traveling, and they never go anywhere without a needle and some thread. Sam is the best at sewing. Pippin is not allowed around needles.
Boromir notices this, thinks it’s adorable, and leaves things out purposely for the hobbits to use. Eventually, he asks about it, and they convince him to do the patches, too.
Aragorn also notices and thinks it’s adorable, but doesn’t bring it up to them. He’s secretly flattered to find pieces of his rag on Frodo’s pants. He asks Boromir about it instead.
Legolas doesn’t notice. His clothes are elven-made, and the scissors refuse to cut it.
Gimli notices the random holes in his clothes, and the things going missing, but doesn’t realize it’s the hobbits. He brings it up to Legolas, who immediately convinces Gimli that he’s crazy and it’s all in his head.
Gandalf notices, obviously, and he doesn’t mind until Pippin tries to cut his cloak while hes asleep. He proceeds to wake up and yell at him until dawn.
After Boromir dies, Aragorn takes his cloak, and sews pieces onto his clothes. These are the only patches he has.
Bilbo has a set of clothes with patches from the dwarves, from his own adventure. He told them about the tradition, and they all gave him pieces of fabric to use. He can still recount which patch belonged to who.
What actually happened to Jayce and Viktor in the end? And why didn’t Ekko’s Z-drive destroy everything within its blast radius?
TL;DR: the only timeline that could have worked was the one where Viktor gives Jayce the Acceleration rune, where Ekko invents the Z-drive, and where Jayce saves Viktorand gets his partner back.
Something we’ve seen pointed out is that the world rune that worked in this timeline was the Acceleration rune, which has the function of transportation through time and space.
Ekko’s Z-drive was built by inverting Jayce’s Acceleration rune (this is important later).
Rewatching Arcane after the finale is kind of insane in hindsight like take this scene for example
Jayce defending hextech/magic to Viktor, based on his childhood experience of him and his mother being saved from a snowstorm by a mage, who we now know was Viktor. Saying “you’ve no idea how beautiful it is” to Viktor, about Viktor. It’s been about Viktor this whole time.
Also a fun bit of foreshadowing because Viktor DOESN’T know how beautiful it (it being he) is. The actions Viktor took in s02 were motivated by him wanting to improve the lives of others, but his view of what “improving” the lives of others is deeply rooted in his own view of himself and his internalized ableism (which smarter and more eloquent people than me have explained on here already so I won’t go on about it). It took seeing Jayce’s POV of him to bring him back to his humanity. “There is beauty in imperfections. They made you who you are, an inseparable piece of everything I admired about you” Like AU Viktor said to Jayce, “Only you can show me this”. Man what the fuck
Since that peak is the only place with a clear sky and a relatively peaceful atmosphere, having the other Jayce appear almost like a statue—rather than grotesque like the monsters or just straight up pulverized like the non-cultists feels important.
It is the most well-kept area in that world—Viktor’s most cherished place. He is preserving it in Jayce’s memory, and it almost feels like a grave.
I imagine Viktor never leaves its sight, as there may be nowhere else for him to go. He spends all his days mourning Jayce. HIS Jayce…Oh my god, they make me ill.
so ive seen people talk about this scene, particularly about how jayce accepts viktors touch even when he knows its coming and could potentially dodge it/counter it with the hammer
from what ive read mostly people talk about how much affection (ha) and trust jayce puts in viktor, and personally i also think its because he saw the future and knows its the only way to reach him
if he wants to save him, save piltover he must strip away all the walls viktor has built around himself and his emotions, and thus jayce needs to be let into the hive mind where he can talk to actual viktor and not herald (also parallels to that scene when he shoots him, someone said he didnt let viktor utter a word because he knew he would convince him THEY ARE SO WEAK FOR EACH OTHER MY GOD)
but thats not what i wanted to talk about!! going back to the beginning of that scene on the rooftop
doesnt this seem awfully similar to the medieval coronation ceremony?
jayce is kneeling surrounded by followers/past inhabitants of zaun/piltover, during medieval coronation ceremonies it was a priest who would bestow the crown upon the future king. moreover, coronation was often considered a religious rite because of how rulers and deities were closely tied (different cultures would believe in different versions of this, that their ruler was chosen by gods or perhaps their descendant/vessel).
we already joke how viktor became god/jesus/deity/eldritch cosmic being etc, we also know despite everything he still holds strong feelings towards jayce (damn hypocrite) and views him differently than the others
so it would make sense he would wish to personally “introduce” jayce to his hive mind cult
notice how when jayce got to the roof NONE of the marionettes/machines tried to get to him asap unlike they do with others
no, this is a ceremony performed by their god who is choosing the one closest to him, demonstrating to the world how he wishes jayce to be the ruler of his glorious evolution
viktor places his fingers on him gently and carefully, while when they were fighting in the councils room he was ready to force his touch when jayce initially rejected his proposal (always trying to make jayce understand his perspective)
and jayce accepts it with so much serenity and solemnity that in that moment reminded me strongly of aragorn in lotr
a true king in the eyes of the one coronating them
also his unique fingerprints make me think of a crown/circlet every single time i see them and thats why i wrote all of this
i love all things related to medieval knighthood/royalty so this whole interaction has been boiling in my head until it spilled over, you are welcome
Look, I know this is kind of conjecture, but there is just something about Éomer adjusting to a life after the War of the Ring with Théoden and Théodred gone, and knowing that Éowyn will be moving on to live her own life far away from him, and then meeting Lothíriel and through her becoming adjacent (more so than just as a friend of Imrahil) to her Amrothian family, gaining a father-in-law and no less than three brothers, and all that comes with being a part of such a company. It must be so strange and yet so comforting for him. He wonders about how Théoden would have got along with Imrahil. And before he knows it Imrahil has adopted him and Éowyn.
I have this mental image of Éomer nearly weeping in relief after his and Lothíriel’s engagement is made. Finally, he has a family.
I do love that in Rohan culture, it seems that it’s the custom for men to go out and fight and die heroically, and for women to honour their sacrifice by crying over their bodies or at their funerals. The men are to be brave, the woman to be loving. The men are to do great things. The women are to remember.
But in the film, whereas Eowyn’s most iconic moment is her slaying of the Witch King, a great, heroic deed that cements her place in history, Eomer’s most iconic moment is (arguably) his guttural scream when he sees Eowyn dead on the ground, dropping to his knees and cradling her to his chest.
Not only is Eowyn’s most iconic moment a scene in which she takes on, by her culture’s definition, the man’s role, the most important role of a man, to die heroically, Eomer’s most iconic moment is when he takes on the “woman’s” role, to grieve.
I do love his “Death!” charge in the books so much, but because of this parallel between the siblings, I also love the film version where there is no battle for him to fight, no justice for him to wreak, there’s nothing for him to do but cradle Eowyn to his chest and rock her back and forth.
I recognize that this is MASTERchef, so the contestants, especially this far in, are actually very good chefs but Amaury really woke up and chose violence huh.
