To Steal A Book Is An Elegant Offense

So my dad was the assistant music editor on Tarzan, and idk if it was Bring Your Kid to Work Day or something but one day he did just that so there I was, this incredibly small 1st grader, in an absolutely cavernous recording studio with a full orchestra and a giant screen playing the scene they were taping the score for, and my little brain couldn't handle the big music and the big movie happening all at once so I started crying and it was the first time music ever brought me to tears and it was too much to take in so we stepped out of the studio and ran directly into Phil Collins, who looked to me very much like my dad, and in my delicate emotional state I became immediately convinced that my dad had been copied and nobody had told me so I started crying harder, and Phil Collins said something that was probably meant to be calming but it was with a British accent so I thought there was a copy of my dad in every country and I absolutely lost it at the notion that other kids would get to have my dad, and my dad ended up having to carry me back to the car.

tired: marcille plays animal crossing and nothing else

Wasn't there literally an omake comic by Ryoko Kui (one of the ones set in a modern setting AU) about Marcille waiting patiently for the Elvish translation of [a game that's clearly meant to be Dwarf Fortress].

And here are the original screenshots vs. the final, for any interested parties! Really tried to amp up the Struzan vibes:

hey everyone "I" have something to show "you"

I have never once, in all my years, thought that someone could be so dense so as to think a book in first person POV is meant to be the reader’s pov.

I saw that "What Winter Olympics sport would you compete in?" poll, and I didn't vote in it so idk what the results are. But I did see that "a lot of you think curling is way easier than it actually is" comment.

Next installment of Lord of the Rings AU: It's Fine, Everybody's Fine is Aragorn's coronation, at which Boromir W E E P S:

the way money unlocks literal life experiences and longevity

I think mostly what young fandom types (and I guess younger people in general) who are very very invested in the idea that “20 is still basically a minor” need to understand is that the feeling of “I’m just a child pretending to be an adult, and everyone else around me is a REAL adult” is DEEPLY universal (and won’t stop, ever, by the way, sorry!) and also is not, like, praxis.

Like I'm nearing 40 and I don't feel significantly different as a person than I did at 20, other than being less depressed.

And stop infantilizing others about it, too. Yes, you're realizing at 25 that you still don't feel like an adult, but you cannot use that feeling to let yourself think of people who are younger than you as "even less of an adult than I am" when they are, in fact, adults. And you have to be very, very careful not to let that feeling convince you that it's okay for young adults to have fewer rights.