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“Pop pop!”
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no do you understand how well this works, do it
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I humbly share my recent creation with any of you who also have a spreadsheet job and sometimes get in the zone
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We’re watching the Return of the King right now, and got to the part where Denethor is introduced. My husband asks me for the context of why Denethor is Like That, since I just finished reading the book. So I explained how Denethor has been using a Palantir for years to get information, and how Sauron has been manipulating him by only letting him see events that give him a worst possible impression of reality.
So my husband replies “Oh! So Denethor is basically just like your grandpa after he starts getting all his news from Fox.” And honestly, yeah pretty much.
Warn people before you make statements like that. I was not ready.
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The reason why Ludinus is so great as a villain is like...he has either prolonged his lifespan or he just casually lies about its length and everyone accepts it. He is legitimately a powerful archmage. He might have destroyed Molaesmyr. He almost certainly got involved with the Cerberus Assembly entirely to use it as a front for his master plan of killing the gods, which means he's been playing the long game for at least two and a half centuries and is indirectly responsible for perhaps 80% of the major villainy in Exandria since then, and both past campaign BBEGs. He will destroy people's minds without a second thought, but despite allying with the Unseelie Court, is thrown off by standard levels of fey chaos and whimsy. He hates the magic of clerics because he perceives it as unearned, but willingly allies with sorcerers. He knows the romantic relationship history of Vox Machina to the point that he's willing to bet on it for his master plan. He will throw anyone under the bus for any reason but will also gladly turn a blind eye to highly illegal activities if they don't inconvenience him, and despite this, has managed to be a major advisor to the Dwendalian Imperial line for several generations. He is one of the smartest people in the world and also gave perhaps the corniest fucking villain speech of all time. He is extremely jealous of a bunch of nepo babies with chronic migraines and night terrors. He genuinely might currently be in the middle of the Savalirwood with a necrotized arm despite successfully plotting the Orbing of a divine champion. No one has or ever will do it like him, and frankly, why would they.
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*Fingon’s phone is ringing*
Celegorm: Pff, you still call your dad ‘daddy’?
Fingon, answering the call while holding eye contact with Celegorm: Yes, Maitimo?
Celegorm: *chokes*
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the internet has redefined cringe for me from “the general feeling when you suck air through your clenched teeth and veins on your neck pop up” to “feeling second hand embarrassment because someone is being stupid on the internet” so this didnt make sense to me at all
(me falling into a hole in the jungle and getting absolutely fucking eviscerated) oh fuck cringe lol
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Tom Bombadil should be an aspirational character for everyone with issues setting boundaries actually bc he’s just like Wow that sounds hard. Absolutely not my circus though. Enjoy a song and some bread. Anyway bye
Like may we all have the power to look someone who is Clearly the Protagonist dead in the eye at some point in our lives and be like. Nah
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"Will you marry me, Miss Dearheart?" he shouted.
[...] Miss Dearheart blew a smoke ring.
"Not yet," she said calmly. This got a mixture of cheers and boos.
my copy didn't come with a dust jacket so I'm making my own cover instead x
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stepped on a plum (overripe plum) (barefoot) it was on the driveway got out of the car and accidentally (didn't know it was there) stepped on the plum (warm) (on the ground) (it had fallen from the tree) barefoot (no shoes) wearing long pants (too long) (need to hem them) plum viscera got on them (the pants) unexpected plum on the driveway (hot plum) (97 degrees out) already super hungover (throwing up all morning) (should not have been driving at all) and I stepped out of the car (black car) (97 degrees out) and onto the plum (unexpected) (didn't know the plum was there) and it burst (plum nightmare on my only good pair of sweatpants) still we find ways to keep ourselves going from day to day
happy one year anniversary to possibly the best plum poem since william carlos williams' "this is just to say"
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hot adhd tip: if you are being productive and shit and you want to continue being productive DO NOT SIT DOWN. "oh im gonna take a five minute break and get back to it-" no you wont king. you will automatically lose all motivation the second you sit down.
Truth in satire.
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2K CELEBRATION ✨ gift for @moon-canyon ↳ (insp. insp. & insp.) (template.)
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Florence Pugh attending the premiere of Don't Worry Darling at the 79th Venice Film Festival
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4-Sided Dive, episode 6:
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Anonymous asked:
Just want you to know that your Pseudo-Democratic Valinor post gave me the mental image of Master Samwise Gardner, formerly Gamgee, High King Of The Noldor.
I'm not even mad, that's hilarious to me.
I mean, by the early Fourth Age, the politics of Eldamar are definitely shaped by:
- comfortable peace for longer than many people remember
- old family feuds that are maintained partly out of real grievance, partly as a hobby
- absolutely everybody knows absolutely everybody else, including all newborns
- care for simple growing things (as well as, admittedly, elaborately constructed palaces made entirely of gemstones or something)
So...yeah, being High King in early Fourth Age Tirion is probably very much like being Mayor of Hobbiton! Sam would do fine. He came here to retire, though, so he wouldn't want to do it for long... Fortunately, when they semi-accidentally elected Frodo immediately upon his arrival in Valinor (and Frodo really just wanted to retire), they hastily passed a new law stating that, while the usual term for High Kingship is 100 years, in the case of more change- and weariness-prone mortals, it would be one year only.
(How was Frodo "semi-accidentally" elected High King of the Noldor? Well...
Over the years, the High Kingship has become a primarily ceremonial role, though the High King is the only one allowed to declare war and/or blasphemous rebellion on behalf of the Noldor, and might be called upon to decide judicial or moral arguments that lesser kings dispute. Most centuries, the position is held by Arafinwë, on account of historically famous common sense, unassuming but raw badassery, and the tendency of the general Noldorin populace to hew stubbornly to the line of Finwë in leadership positions. ["General Noldorin populace" being at this point roughly defined as, "all those who register to vote for and respect the authority of the High King of the Noldor", with established legal complications involving where people live, what guild they are or are not part of, and also most parts of the political system are experimentally changed every 500 years on average...but the High Kingship remains, because, essentially, everyone is more comfortable with a proven-responsible referee.]
It's usually Arafinwë, but because it's increasingly ceremonial, sometimes someone else is elected as sort of a popular award of great recognition. A painter named Helyanwillë was elected after unveiling her mountainside-sized mural of the Ainulindalë, to gaze upon which brings an echo of the Great Music to mind. The three-elf team who cracked the secrets of generating and taming lightning to run through wires and power things like dishwashers were jointly elected in TA 1200. There was a brief run of electing the old kings of Beleriand circa the 5000th anniversary of Dagor Bragollach: Fingon had a good term, Finrod threw some amazing parties, and then Turgon, after acting exasperated but tolerant in the whole run-up to his election, turned around and exerted the High King's right to not be ceremonial, and redesigned and remodeled the entirety of Tirion, and much of the surrounding infrastructure.
The people elected Arafinwë again after that.
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i want to be inconvenienced by you. i want to wait for you, i want to hold your things while you do something else, i want to make adjustments to my plans to make space for you. someone at your side who takes up no space and has no needs of their own is not a person, but a shadow. i don't want a shadow, i want you. i want my life to be altered by your presence in it. please, inconvenience me.
if toxic, why sound endearing?
do you seriously consider someone saying "my love for you is unconditional and based in the trust that we are permitted to need and want the other in small everyday ways; never feel ashamed to ask me for help or for being a part of my life"
as being toxic?
Having needs and expressing them is good actually, and it's tragic that people are so willing to swallow themselves so as to not be a "burden" on each other. My girlfriend and I lend each other our metaphorical spoons all the time. That's not toxic, that an honest relationship, where we ask for help when we want it- not just need it. When we want it.
May the people who think taking up space is toxic or co-dependent find healing. Because y'all... it ain't good to think that way. You have needs. I hope you feel safe enough to stop hiding them one day
If it's only one-sided and never reciprocal, it can be very toxic indeed. (But it isn't always; a disabled person depending on their partner, friends, and family, is not toxic; neither is a child depending on their parents and other trusted adults.) But part of the point of a healthy relationship is mutual support. It doesn't have to be equal, it doesn’t have to be equivalent (same type of support). It just has to be based on mutual care and concern, with the abilities and needs of all involved taken into account.
Human beings are intensely social creatures. We are here on this Earth to take care of each other.
what's toxic is when you aren't ever allowed to say no.
that's the thing, really: people often wind up feeling guilty and/or unsafe taking up space and asking for things not because they're overtly not permitted to do so, but because they're around people who don't know how to refuse a point-blank request without aggression, especially if it's fundamentally reasonable, and therefore mostly do what you actually ask of them no matter how much they don't want to, and hate you for it.
so, counterintuitively, in order to maintain a relationship where you're both allowed to need and take up space and rely, it has to be safe and acceptable to not help one another sometimes.
and if you've experienced a lot of relationships where this doesn't exist, then every bit of inter-reliance looks coercive and destructive.
this is why 'having boundaries' is so important. it's not just to defend yourself against toxic people or whatever. it's to defend the kind and loving people in your life from not knowing if they're destroying you or the relationship by asking you to be there for them.