Blooming, softly.

i’m just saying aragorn son of arathorn oh im sorry STRIDER (one of them rangers what his right name is i never heard etc etc) didn’t need to be that sexy at the prancing pony. like ostensibly he’s trying to lay low but even dipshit little [relatively] eighteen y/o frodo is like hey what’s the deal with that extremely ostentatiously sexy man in the corner

“you draw far too much attention to yourself ‘mister underhill’” if i were frodo i wouldve snapped. jesus christ. i can’t help that i’m two feet shorter than everyone else in this definitely definitely 100% a gay bar but at least i didn’t lurk in a sexy corner making eyes at everybody from under my cloak at least im TRYING to pretend i’m not a protagonist you fine ass idiot. i KNOW i’m being pursued by the black riders which is why i didn’t SERVE CUNT from the SHADOWS. the fellowship of the nerve of this bitch

psst. you asked, i delivered. this little conversation piece is now available as a bunch of stuff on my society6!

Look, I know facile trope inversion is for weenies, but I still really want to see a JRPG-style game where the shouty teenage boy who gives long speeches about the power of friendship is the fragile healer and the girl with the gentle piano-and-strings theme song and self-sacrificing “must save everyone” attitude is the melee tank. I don’t think I’m being unreasonable here.

I’m not even being ironic – I honestly think it would work better that way. Like, let’s put power-of-friendship boy in a position where he actually needs to rely on his friends to get anything done, rather than just talking about how they’ve inspired him while he solos the final boss. And as for Little Miss Messiah Complex, well, tell me you can’t perfectly picture how the standard tank protagonist move where you intercept a blow meant for a critically wounded party member, facetank a fucktillion points of damage, then get back up again with one hit point and a voice quip about how the baddies will have to do better than that would play out under her idiom. You can see it, right?

#lotr#sometimes I think about how real authority - real kingship especially - is at heart service and submission#and how Aragon spends his life (ranger or king or friend) serving others#kneeling before them#affirming the kingship of other kings EVEN THOUGH he sometimes outkings them!!#and the moment of his greatest authority is really a submission of his will to his vocation#when I say I sometimes think about this#I mean easily 2-3 times a week (via byjovimbeinghumble)

#aragorn didn’t go to the hollywood school of ‘need is love’  #he went to the terrence rattigan school of ‘duty is love’  #duty as a positive and willingly-perfomed service  #not without sacrifice but without doubt

@blackkatmagic

The other day someone told me "Oh, bless your heart" with complete sincerity and I had to take a minute to be like "Madam, I appreciate the sentiment but I need you to understand that in my culture this would be a declaration of war"

"Oh, bless your heart," "I'll pray for you," and "That's nice" are the three Killing Words for which one can legally initiate the holmgang

This is so real. I saw a post going around about how “fanfic authors don’t accept critique anymore” And it’s like? Imagine you bake a batch of cookies and you take it to the office to share with your co-workers. And then someone just sits down and it’s like “Ah, the flavour profile is not quite proper. See, you should have added the brown sugar *after* the flour, and” And it’s like? Just eat the fucking cookie, Mike, and shut the fuck up. lmao A hobby doesn’t need critique. You don’t even need to be good at it. Let people have fun on the internet, for god’s sake.

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@blackkatmagic

I would like to also participate in this simple reminder. I do not look who follows or unfollows me and I don’t take it personally if someone unfollows. I follow and unfollow people all the time, it’s how I adjust my feed. That’s what the method is for.

“free Palestine” and “don’t use what’s happening to Palestinians as an excuse to spread anti-Semitism” can and should co-exist

spreading hate to jewish people as a response to the actions of the israeli government isn’t woke, it just makes you anti-semitic. you can be critical of the israeli government and not be anti-semitic

As a Palestinian, honestly, a ton of non-Palestinians join the movement as an excuse to be antisemitic and I DON’T WANT Y'ALL SPEAKING FOR ME.

The “single dad adopts a feral child (or two) who may or may not be Force-sensitive” is an amazing trope and I’m glad Star Wars is running with that like they got a buy one get five sale and all.  It’s a very good trope, my heart beats for Anakin and Ahsoka and Ezra and Grogu and Omega and all the others! But also it wouldn’t actually kill Lucasfilm to give us the “single mother adopts a feral child (or two) who may or may not be Force-sensitive” like come on get some living adult women in here, I’m begging you, Lucasfilm.

Every person who reblogs this and screams GIVE US THE MILFS, LUCASFILM I see you and I love you, you are objectively correct.

ollo I’m so mad I didn’t realize you posted over here because none of your posts are showing up on my homepage >:| (also I love them so much, I’m gonna cry)

COVID is slowly becoming a “third world” disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can’t get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.

Watch also when some first world countries finish vaccinating their populations, they will turn to third world countries and “donate” or sell surplus vaccines. People in these countries will go “Oh how sweet! The government is donating vaccines to the poorer countries <3” when it was their hoarding that led to many, many third world citizens dying before they could even get vaccinated in the first place.

and, like, WATCH border policies change because of this