I AM ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND AFTER READING THIS PLEASE READ IT

READ PART TWO AND THREE BELOW !!!!!

Still my favorite story from the Lord of the Rings set: Viggo Mortensen bonded so much with the horse he rode in the movies that after filming was over he bought it from its owner. If that doesn’t warm your heart I don’t know what could.

don’t forget that he also bought arwen’s horse for her stunt rider when she couldn’t afford it awww

#also don’t forget that for the rohirrim they put a call out for locals #bring a horse show us you can ride it and get a part in the battle scenes #and one women went out roped a wild horse and rode for a few days to set #and got to be a rider of rohan

also sort of relevant viggo also bought the horse that costarred with him in the movie hidalgo and subsequently took the horse (tj) with him to the red carpet premier. 

Also most of the Riders of Rohan are actually women because when they put out that call mostly women showed up with their horses and the costume team just stuck beards on them.

if this isn’t the best post i don’t

this is absolutely the best thing i have read all day

You gotta have a plan…

This is just so pretty I’m dying

@taulun

I am. Abruptly hungry.

Last year in Dortmund

(Cristiano’s first goal was some cute balenaldo magic too. The game became a 2-2 tie but what happened in the end of the season, we all know that :))

They shot my toe!

bonus:

ok so for my students’ final project, i’m having them select any text they’d like and produce a new edition of it, one that’s targeted towards a different audience than the text in its original form. their edition has to include a critical introduction as well, explaining the changes that they’ve made to the text and to its material form, challenges they encountered, etc.

i’m reading the project proposals now and there are so many good ones – a cnn article on “alternative facts” re-edited to work as a kindergarten lesson about political engagement, rewriting a piece of the californian legislation family code so it’s legible to non-experts or ESL parents, “no fear hegel” (kill me), a version of cat in the hat for high schoolers that includes peritext explaining its connection to the cold war, etc. but i just got to this one: “Have you ever wondered what would happen if you combined the underlying feelings of aggression and angst in modern American middle schoolers with the manipulative and cunning nature of Machiavellian philosophy?” 

he’s editing the prince for preteens.

i made the mistake of posting this when i was only halfway through the stack. listen. listen. the official bartender’s guide, for NASA astronauts. 

I want to read several of these.

Derek being the one who understands just how capable Stiles is and Stiles making sure Derek knows he did everything he could to save him.

This extended scene!!! 

Stiles daydreaming about Derek looking at him like THAT <3 LIKE A HERO and an ALMOST KISS for saving him。゜ ゜ ♡ (´Ｏ｀)°  ゜x

Meanwhile Derek literally dreamed this:

Sterek AU: Stiles brings home his new boyfriend.

Chris Pine photographed by Ben Watts for Men’s Fitness (2016)