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hey don’t cry. trees grow out of the ground.
the night sky has sparkles on it
the creatures live in the grass.
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why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?
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did anyone ever tell the Backstreet Boys why
My FAVORITE quote, of all time, is from the like, 2008 VH1 Top 50 Best Boy Band Songs special when AJ was commentating this song’s #1 win and he said, “I’ve never understood this song. WHAT WAY do I want it? And why DON’T I want it that way if SHE wants it that way? What’s the way? This song makes no sense. But man, they paid me to sing it.”
He was so distressed about his confusion, and I loved it. I love this song. It is truly the song of all time.
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call it what u will, identifying with an animal is one of the most ancient and universal human experiences. the oldest known depiction of a human has a lions head. i am being dead serious when i say there are few things in this world more normal than being a furry
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I love Matilda because it's a story about a child who sees injustice around her and gets mad about it and questions why things aren't fair, and instead of the ending being that she learns how the world works and that life isn't fair, she catapults one of the adults who abused her out of a building with her mind
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why does my boyfriend have to turn everything into a game of saw
When I discovered J.R.R. Tolkien's Rings trilogy ten years later, I thought, "Shit, this is just a slightly sunnier version of Stoker's Dracula, with Frodo playing Jonathan Harker, Gandalf playing Abraham Van Helsing, and Sauron playing the Count himself."
From the introduction to the 1999 Pocket Books edition of Salem's Lot by Stephen King
...Steve, buddy? I don't want you tell you your business, but it's really not
new game: map the rest of the cast of dracula onto lotr characters, wrong answers only
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
The suitors are like a collective Legolas and Gimli, maybe?
No okay let's wrong answer this as hard as we can hang on I can do this I have a degree in *checks diploma* physics
- Jonathan is Gandalf because he comes back from the dead and turns white
- Dracula is Legolas because he sleeps with his eyes open and is 500 years old
- Mina is Faramir because she is telepathic and has hospital sex
- Lucy is Pippin because she's rich af and caught between childhood and adulthood
- Jack is Denethor because he sees without comprehending and has depression
- Arthur is Sam because he cries a lot and I love him
- Quincey is Gimli because he swears oaths and is a storyteller
- Mrs Westenra is Butterbur the Innkeeper because she talks too much and her house is attacked
- Renfield is Finrod Felagund because he dies trying to wrestle an immortal shapeshifting minion of Satan (I don't have a second one but it's just so specific...)
- The Captain of the Demeter is Galadriel because he requires translation and is the source of one or more boxes of dirt
- Mr Swales is Gaffer Gamgee because he has Old Man Cred and distrusts writing
- Van Helsing is Tom Bombadil because he knows about the undead and is completely unhinged
- Thomas Bilder is Farmer Maggot because he keeps allegedly vicious canids and wants you off his property
- Peter Hawkins is Frodo because he is chronically ill and leaves his inherited bachelor pad to his favorite employee
@mayhemchicken are these answers wrong enough for you?
[image ID: the “I’ve connected the dots” meme with Steven King’s head and tumblr user animate-mush’s profile icon photoshopped over the faces of the two men. End ID.]
