One of the funny things about LotR is that almost every people in it professes to disbelieve in the supernatural, but because they live in a fantasy world their baseline for "natural" is so jacked up. The Rohirrim are like, yeah, there's a wizard in this tower and ancient tradition that we have no reason to doubt says this mountain is full of ghosts, but walking trees? Short people? I don't think so. Galadriel is like, "Listen I heard you describe what I do as magic and look I just gotta clear some things up, okay." Gondorians are like, yeah, of course the Enemy has spectres of men who lived long ago and never died and can now fly above us and incapacitate us with just their voices. This is just a fact of life, okay? But shut up about this magic weed that makes comatose people better. That's an old wives' tale. Royalty? Press X to doubt.
The people group in Tolkien's work who seem most receptive to magic and least restricted by their own notions of what it can do actually seem to be the hobbits. And they use it to avoid meeting people they don't want to talk to
"ai is making it so everyone can make art" Everyone can make art dipshit it came free with your fucking humanity
Actually. It’s very important that s8 has a tea party episode. I want to see Buck and Chimney crammed into a tiny table while Jee-yun serves them tea. Very important.
can't wait for buck to start sharing fun facts about bees
Me trying to flirt: would you like to watch The Lord of the Rings (extended editions)
On the topic of Disney boycotts, Marvel's Captain America 4, titled Captain America: Brave New World (previously titled Captain America: New world order.)
Will be the MCU debut of the superhero, Sabra.
An Israeli superhero, sponsored by the Israeli government.
Sabra aka Ruth Bat-Seraph made her comics debut in 1981 working for what's basically the Israeli secret service.
The comic cover she first appeared in, The Incredible Hulk #256, depicts her blasting the Hulk as a dead Palestinian boy lays in the rubble.
With the caption: Power and Peril in the Promised Land!
The Palestinian boy, called Sahad who was depicted as an illiterate theif was stealing a watermelon from a fruit cart in Tel Aviv.
That Sabra sees as inhuman until the Hulk convinced her otherwise. "It had taken the Hulk to make her see this dead Arab boy as a human being."
Disgusting.
Doesn't even refer to him as Palestinian.
Sabra also shares the same name as the Sabra and Shalita Massacre in Lebanon.
A massacre that many agree Israel holds responsibility for allowing.
And yes, Sabra was created before this atrocity but that doesn't mean they aren't associated with each other years later. Especially with Israel's involvement.
See Israel who are also currently bombing Lebanon.
Marvel has stated they will go with a new appprach for Sabra.
But Marvel is owned by Disney. The same company who donated Israel 2 million dollars...yeah I'm sure you're gonna make her less like an Israeli propaganda machine.
An IDF soilder is not a hero, start there.
I actually really like the idea of Buck and Eddie having some sort of queer platonic relationship going on. 🤔 Platonic love can be just as deep as romantic love.
So it's Buck with both his husband Tommy and his partner in life Eddie. I'd love that, actually.
Me vs my goal to write 100 words a day for my dissertation.
Day one: 0
Day two: 0
Day three: nearly 500 words in less than 30 minutes
I meaaaaan task failed successfully?
rewatching the hobbit trilogy after lotr rewatch and I cannot explain how much I love Bilbo Baggins he is one of my favorite characters of all time and his characterization and performance in the movies is the main reason i have any sort of fondness for them in hindsight.
the amount of which i love bilbo is only matched by how badly i would beat that racist rat martin freeman with a baseball bat in the streets ON SIGHT
ugh thinking about how much a golden retriever bisexual buck and black cat lesbian taylor bestie-ism would EATTTTTT like i fear they had no choice but to write off taylor the way they did bc if they made them a mlm/wlw solidarity bestie duo instead of that fuckass relationship they would have been too powerful
and like you KNOW she would have already called his ass out on being in love with eddie like if she were there like she would have taken one look at 7x4 and gone “are you fucking stupid?” with a slap on the back of his head
she would have dunked that big-ass pitcher of beer over tarantula’s head if she heard him make that fucking closet joke
she would have done a hit piece on bigotry within the lafd featuring tortoiseshell when buck told her he got left on the sidewalk by tomato
she would have smacked eddie upside the head already and told him to wake tf up
she would have done a hit piece on ortiz to get mara back to hen and karen
she would have helped track down the cartel to make up for hurting bobby and athena in dosed
taylor kelly you deserved to be a bitchy lesbian and im sorry they made me end up hating you in s5 you deserved better
me looking for ace/aro characters: lets go gambling!
[character's sex repulsion is used for jokes] aw dang it
[character is put in sexual situations despite disliking it] aw dang it
[character's identity is ignored by fandom] aw dang it
[characters creators sexualize them] aw dang it
[aro character gets 'fixed' by true love] aw dang it
[aro/ace character is literally an animal] aw dang it
[creator messes up definition of asexuality] aw dang it
[characters asexuality is never brought up in media] aw dang it