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do you think voldemort spent several years going around being all 'the T is silent' before just giving up?

#a worthy evil backstory#I too wouldn't allow anyone to call me by my name if they couldn't pronounce it#it's hilarious to think that maybe the Taboo doesn't pin you if you don't pronounce the T#like you have said the name but you've said it right#you get to live another day via @take-the-unknow-road-now

lol omg this is canon to me now

One of my favorites.

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It puzzles me when people cite LOTR as the standard of “simple” or “predictable” or “black and white” fantasy. Because in my copy, the hero fails. Frodo chooses the Ring, and it’s only Gollum’s own desperation for it that inadvertently saves the day. The fate of the world, this whole blood-soaked war, all the millennia-old machinations of elves and gods, comes down to two addicts squabbling over their Precious, and that is precisely and powerfully Tolkien’s point. 

And then the hero goes home, and finds home a smoking desolation, his neighbors turned on one another, that secondary villain no one finished off having destroyed Frodo’s last oasis not even out of evil so much as spite, and then that villain dies pointlessly, and then his killer dies pointlessly. The hero is left not with a cathartic homecoming, the story come full circle in another party; he is left to pick up the pieces of what was and what shall never be again. 

And it’s not enough. The hero cannot heal, and so departs for the fabled western shores in what remains a blunt and bracing metaphor for death (especially given his aged companions). When Sam tells his family, “Well, I’m back” at the very end, it is an earned triumph, but the very fact that someone making it back qualifies as a triumph tells you what kind of story this is: one that is too honest to allow its characters to claim a clean victory over entropy, let alone evil. 

So where’s this silly shallow hippie fever-dream I’ve heard so much about? It sounds like a much lesser story than the one that actually exists.

+1 You know how Frodo leaves Sam with the legacy of the quest - the job of bearing witness to what happened - and the duty to finish and protect his writings? Tolkien lost all but one of his friends in WW1. He was founder member of a literary club at school - the TCBS. There was a larger group and a core of four. They all stayed friends, they kept writing and sharing their work with each other. And they were almost all killed. One of them, Geoffrey Smith, wrote this to Tolkien in 1916. My chief consolation is that if I am scuppered tonight – I am off on duty in a few minutes – there will still be left a member of the great T.C.B.S. to voice what I dreamed and what we all agreed upon.  […] May God bless you my dear John Ronald and may you say things I have tried to say long after I am not there to say them if such be my lot. And that was his last letter. There’s something eerie about the way he seems to have pegged Tolkien as an eventual survivor.  Sam’s survival (and his emergence as the true hero of the book) are beautiful because they’re suffused with loss, because they’re not the grand conquering heroic narrative that on some level was “supposed” to happen.

Tolkien possibly only survived because he got trench fever - a particularly nasty disease carried by lice - and got sent home because he was desperately ill. Considering how the rest of his unit fared, it probably saved his life. Unpleasant and unglamorous, but if not for that, we wouldn’t have LOTR. I’m sure survivor’s guilt was a factor - as was a sickening sense of dread when “The War to End All Wars” didn’t, and his son went off to WWII.

TLOTR has some of the type of valorization of war that you find in the Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon literature that JRRT loved and studied and taught because he loved that style and it’s deeply fitting for cultures like the Rohirrim, but it’s also full of the slog of war, the waste and tragedy, and the irrevocable damage that even victorious survivors carry for the rest of their lives. Frodo’s symbolic “death” is also resonant for survivors of what was called “shell-shock” then and PTSD now.

I mean, it’s not Game of Thrones. It’s not gritty in the same way. But the protagonist of LOTR was minor gentry from a backwater nobody’d heard of, and the REAL hero who saved the world by saving him was his gardener. All the great kings and queens and lords and ladies in the story are background characters compared to the story of the little people. Literally little people, but symbolically too.

The party is trying to convince a little girl to come with him so they can hold her for ransom, they meet her at the inn. 

Paladin: Hey, it’s ok! You’ll get to see your parents again, I promise, just come with us!

DM: The little girl still looks wary of you.

Rogue assassin, pushing him aside before leaning in real close and slamming her knife into the table a few inches away from her hand: Do you want to see your family again?

DM: the little girl backs away and starts crying.

Bard: nice going, pussyshits. How the hell are we supposed to kidnap her now?

Wizzard: I cast sleep.

Ranger: ooh, and I put her in the bag of holding, leaving it open so she can breath.

DM: ok what the fuck you guys-

Fighter: I SEAL IT, DIE MOTHERFUCKER!

Bard: WE NEED HER FOR RANSOM HANDS OFF

DM: GUYS-

Paladin, with 5 wisdom: WAIT WE WERE KIDNAPPING HER???

Necromancer: HOW OBLIVIOUS ARE YOU?

Ranger, bitterly: Oblivious enough to not realize I’ve been flirting with him this entire time. 

Paladin: YOU HAVE???

Bard: RANGER WHEN I WAS HITTING ON YOU, YOU SAID YOU WERE STRAIGHT!

*DM has slid under the table out of their chair as the table riots* 

"There is a long-held stigma against people considered to be having “too much” sex, but there’s also one held against those having “too little,” with the goalposts of judgment moving for every person and their individual opinions. Slut-shaming is a huge problem, with women in particular being ostracized for having multiple partners. On the flip-side, vanilla⁠-shaming is a topic being spoken about a lot at the moment, with Tiktok trends glamorizing rough sex and shaming teenagers who aren’t thrilled with the idea of being choked when they haven’t even figured out what they like and what they don’t yet in terms of sex and sexuality.

People seem to have a problem with sex no matter how much or little you have of it, and that’s the true root of the problem. The number of people you choose to sleep with isn’t the crux of sexual liberation. People who choose to have sex with fewer (or no) people shouldn’t be ashamed, and neither should people who choose to have multiple partners. It’s all about the choice - having the agency to sleep with as many or as few people as you please. It doesn’t make you naïve or boring or a slut⁠ or a whore; it’s just a choice that you’ve made, and that in itself is sexually liberating."

Jess Thomson, My One and Only

it's missing viktuuri hours

draw a bird that carries water around and does a lil dance to lure worms out because they think its raining

There's a bunch of adhd advice out there that's like "people with adhd tend to work better under deadlines due to the anxiety so here are ways to artificially induce a stress response in order to get you to get work done" and it's like well what if I don't want to be stressed out all the time in order to function

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My Star Trek friends, reblog with your favourite most ‘out of context’ Star Trek image

I’ll start:

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Oh my time has COME >:D

Excellent post everyone

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if that was the case why are there only ever like two woman characters in these games?

Tbh the problem with ship wars is that everyone tries to find a moral high ground to prove their ship is superior when actually shipping should be about making two characters kiss like a kid playing with barbie dolls

You don't like my two characters kissing? That's fine you can go play with other people that want your two characters to kiss it's literally that easy