Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Éowyn/Faramir (Son of Denethor II), Boromir (Son of Denethor II) & Faramir (Son of Denethor II) Characters: Éowyn (Tolkien), Faramir (Son of Denethor II), Boromir (Son of Denethor II) Additional Tags: Fluff, Post-War of the Ring, Engagement, Transgender Faramir (Son of Denethor II), Transgender Eowyn (Tolkien), theyre t4t your honor, i have citations, slight miscommunication for comedic purposes, Brotherly Love, in a normal way, Flashbacks, basically reminiscing boromir giving him his first guy haircut, with a sword, Fluff and Humor, a LOT of waxing poetic about how baller eowyn is, Trans Male Character, Trans Female Character, Trans Characters By Trans Author, Coming Out Summary:

Below, Minas Tirith bustled, with the last of the artisans heading home and a score of mirthful tavern-goers preparing to celebrate their wedding with a headache. Dozens of torches burned like stars below, descended just to try and catch a strain or two of the many merry melodies lilting out of open windows.

Even hundreds of feet above, it was a captivating scene to behold. Faramir watched its reflection in Éowyn’s eyes.

the night before their wedding, Faramir and Éowyn have a long-procrastinated discussion

still thinking about "decolonising" missionary work.

the way you decolonise missionary work is by not doing missionary work

the way you decolonise missionaries is like this:

"but it's part of my religion to evangelise"

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"but we need to go to Ethiopia (one of the oldest christian countries in the world) to make them the right kind of christian!"

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jaguars

"but..."

🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆 jaguars

This my very, very favourite painting 😁😁😁

We are plagued by missionaries trying to make the right kind of Christians from local Indigenous people, who are mostly Catholic, thanks to the previous missionaries, you know, the Spanish ones.

We don't have enough jaguars.

the thing about gay bdsm dynamics is they will make explicit what is implicit in normative cisheterosexual dynamics and then those complicit in cisheterosexuality will act all scandalized about seeing themselves in the funhouse mirror

in kink as in gender, a choice instead of an invisible pressure is reprehensible. If you put on the big clanky chain, you necessarily have the big shiny key to it, and you show it to be merely a thing, not a natural force.

I think the thing that's even scarier about kink, to the wrong sort of person, is that... it's a game. It's meant to be fun. You are not meant to take it too seriously, and if you start taking it too seriously, you will have to stop.

The kind of person who thinks that the big clanky chain is a natural force is also the kind of person who thinks that you should take that force SERIOUSLY AS DEATH. you shouldn't treat it like, say, the weather, like a nuisance to be planned around- no, you should let it rule everything that goes into and out of you. (Pun fully intended.) Every thought, every word, every relationship dynamic, even the food you eat is supposed to be constrained by Your Social Role As An Hetero Man/Woman. You're supposed to CONSTANTLY project dominance or submission with everything you do.

....And then kinksters, gay OR straight, come in with the big clanky chain and big shiny key and fluffy pink handcuffs and goofy-ass Saturday Morning Cartoon Villain outfits and say, "actually, social roles are a costume you can put on or take off, and we're having a costume party." It's not just that they're showing the natural force isn't all that natural- it's that they're making it into a big, campy joke.

And for someone who's spent their entire life abusing themself in the name of patriarchy? Turning that constant coercion into a thing you can laugh at and put away when you're done? It's unthinkable.

I wonder why

i know that "unalive" is part of larger worrying trend of self censorship but if you really are in a situtation where you have to avoid the words "die" or "kill" the english language already has centuries worth of much better euphemisms. the iconic and perennial "six feet under"? the lovely imagery of "pushing up daisies"? "shuffle off this mortal coil"????? literally anything from the monty python dead parrot bit???? you have so many options. please try to be more creative at least

Cocaine was a stimulant used by a priestly caste of the middle period United States called businessmen in order to commune with The Market. [1]

obsessed with this exchange

got so high I got scared and had to get out of the car to calm down and a coyote immediately sprinted out of the underbrush and stalked towards me

i was like ok im a little too high and immediately there were beasts.

*gender reveal party video voice* I’m your peepaw and I HOPE TO GOD you’ll be a nonbinary barista

The real reason magnets do that is because they are perverse sexual beasts

The last time we were on a long flight, my wife and I invented a game we call "Little Guy."

You start a game of Little Guy by saying, "I'm gonna hand you a little guy." The little guy is some kind of baby animal you are imagining. "Oh," she might say in response, "Okay," and hold out her hands for it. I will then mime handing her the animal. This provides some clues as to the little guy's size, weight, and general ungainliness.

She then gets to ask questions about what kind of little guy this is, BUT NO QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS ACTUAL APPEARANCE OR SPECIES ARE ALLOWED. Qualitative questions, or questions about his behavior, are the only ones permitted. She can ask "Is he soft?" or "Does he seem nervous about being held?" or "If I put him in the bathtub, does he seem okay with that?" or "Would he like a lil grape?" or "Is he the sort of little fellow who would wear a vest in a children's book?" but not "Does he have fur," "Is he a reptile," "Is he from Asia," etc. Some questions are in a grey area so you have to follow your heart, but the point is not to identify the animal as fast as possible: the point is to guess the animal purely based on vibes + how he would act if he were in your living room right now.

And I'm not limited to yes or no answers! If she asks, "Would it feel appropriate to see this little guy in a propeller hat?" I can reply, "Oh no, he has a gravity to him. A bowler hat would be a more appropriate hat." Or if she asks, "Does this little guy have protagonist energy?" I can say something like, "he probably wouldn't be the main character in a children's cartoon. He'd probably be the main character's ditzy best friend who's always eating sandwiches, or something."

We're big Twenty Questions to kill time in a waiting room people, but Little Guy is more about the journey than the destination. It's got a different kind of sauce that's nice if "killing time" and "lowering anxiety" need to happen hand in hand.

Leonid Pasternak  (Ukrainian, 1862–1945) - The Torments of Creative Work

oh leonid, we're really in it now

Nina Simone's gorgeous white netted jumpsuit, performing in Newport, 1967. Photos in part by David Redfern/Getty and John Rudoff via Flickr.

When I'm a pastor and I open my eyes and the rapture happened when I was giving my sermon

excellent pic choice