Like the Moon

I hate the “open floor plan” that everyone is obsessed with in houses now. I want nooks and crannies and bizarre floor plans. I don’t need to be able to see what someone is doing on the other side of the house. I want places to hide and lurk and dwell in the shadows. I am the beast who awaits in the labyrinth

Open floor plans are a relic of post-war "we can consume as much as we want with no consequences" optimism. You know why old houses are full of doors and corridors and such? Because you can trap heat in just the rooms you are using, and not have to heat the whole house (likely sending it up through your high, barely-insulated, exposed-rafter ceiling in the process).

Consign open plan housing to the dustbin along with gas guzzling boat cars and other relics of the pre-oil-crisis era. Go green, go labyrinthine. With doors.

ok this tag really got me

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(SOUND IS CRUCIAL) this video is has murdered me dead the music the editing the way information is slowly revealed about the two of them the plot twist the breaking bad images. WILLIAM WILLIAM WILLIAM. all over minecraft parkour someone help im seizing

the movie really undersells the fact that frodo spent half a year planning to make his departure from the shire as inconspicuous as possible and merry and pippin and sam saw him doing that, figured out he was leaving the shire and that it had something to do with bilbo’s ring, and then spent nearly as long preparing to go with him. icons

worth nothing to people who havent read the books: they didnt tell him they were planning to come with him until the very last minute when he’s finally about to spill the beans, and merry’s just kind of ”yo frodo you have the worst poker face in the shire and you constantly walk around saying shit like ”oughhh i do wonder if i shall ever look down this path again oughhwh woe” out loud for everyone to hear” and frodo just sits there like

AND and. frodo’s like don’t try to stop me from leaving!! i must go!! and the girlies are like SILLY BILLY we mean to go with you!! and he’s like NO NO you don’t get it i’m probably gonna DIE!! and they’re like no no YOU don’t get it we KNOW!! you think we’d let you march off to your doom alone??

The Lament for Icarus (1898), by Herbert James Draper.

— WHO’S AFRAID OF LITTLE OLD ME?, taylor swift

THE CROWS as species of the Crow Family

Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy being like, "I am 100% committed to respecting your 'no', but I heard you wouldn't promise my aunt not to marry me so I had to come and check just one (1) more time."

When you try to avoid being smitten and end up being smitten anyway 😊.

Someone PLEASE tell the Witch-King of Angmar that this little hobbit genuinely thinks it’s anyone’s guess whether or not he’s literate. PLEASE.

To be fair, it is anyone’s guess. Literacy is not some sort of baseline qualification for kingship. Even if Angmar was a realm that put great stock in the written word (and we don’t know that), that doesn’t mean every single inhabitant is literate. Literacy is a specialist skill. Kings can afford to hire (or, in the case of Angmar, enslave) specialists if they need them.

Incidentally, if the Black Riders can read, we do not know whether they can read Shire-style Westron. Maybe they just know Sauron’s adapted Black Speech Tengwar mode and a little Sindarin on the side. WHO KNOWS.

Besides, at this point Frodo doesn’t even know who and what the riders are. For all he knows, they could be trained monkeys or enchanted clouds. He doesn’t even know if they’re sapient.

Also, I’m pretty sure at one point it is mentioned that the riders use their horses to see (just don’t remember whether this is before or after the above quote).

If that is indeed the case, and is mentioned prior to this scene, it is not unreasonable to assume that the riders cannot read by virtue of not being able to see the lettering.

Now picturing a rider holding a note in front of their horse and trying to make sure it doesn’t bite it

Tonight, we remember one who lent his enormous talent to telling the story we have all come to love. Hail, the victorious dead!

May the Simbelmynë cover his tomb as it did the tomb of the one he so accurately portrayed.

Bernard Hill Dec 17, 1944 - May 5, 2024

Rest in Peace, Bernard Hill 🤍🕊

Bernard Hill

1944 - 2024

I LOVE being alive so I can be mediocre at SO many different hobbies

People in the tags keep saying this but unironically but this WAS unironic I actually do have hobbies and I am mediocre at them. And they do make me happy anyway

RIP Bernard Hill. Absolute legend of British cinema.