Maybe It's Maberline!

legolas, aragorn, and gimli are all used to combat, sam works as a gardener, merry and pippin often gallivant off and get into mischief so they have the advantage of experience in whatever it is they’ve gotten up to/would possibly fight dirty, gandalf is gandalf so while weapons are out of the question i suppose that depends on if magic is involved. i don’t think i could take him without magic even if he IS old because he’s a very large guy, but maybe

First off, Pippin has it coming, so you won’t be fighting your conscience at the same time.

Secondly, Pippin is a spoiled rich kid. He’s no less gentry than Frodo is, but Frodo works out and is shown to have better stamina, at least at the outset. Pippin is also both the stupidest and the slowest of the hobbits. They both nearly beat one (1) troll, so that’s comparable, but Pippin appears not to have got a single hit in against the orcs that captured them while Merry was cutting off hands like a boss. Pippin also straight-up tell Bergil that he’s not a fighter.

Also there’s a nonzero chance that Frodo will just straight up curse you (if the guilt of fighting Frodo isn’t enough if a curse by itself).

So here’s what you do:

You fight Legolas.

The thing about fist-fighting Legolas of course is that you will lose. This is not a fight you’re gonna win no matter what. But Legolas has his standing competition with Gimli, so once the challenge is issued, he’s not gonna let anyone else step in and fight you either. No one is liable to volunteer on his behalf, either, so you will only end up fighting the one member of the fellowship. If you are lucky he might also take his shirt off. Bonus!

Anyway.

Legolas will mop the floor with you, but he’s also already convinced you’re weaker than him anyway because you’re not an elf, so he’s gonna go kind of easy on you. And when you lose he will be all snide and superior about it, which means everyone in the fellowship is gonna sympathize with you, and Gimli will probably challenge him on your behalf afterwards, but here’s the key thing:

You will have lost a fist-fight to an immortal warrior prince.

so not nearly as old but, this is a 12th century stave church in lom, norway (one of less than 40 left in the world)

it’s hard to see, but in the top left corner of this photo where the light comes in from the window, there’s a runic inscription

these photos show it more clearly, it’s easier to see in person. so of course one of the people i was travelling with asked what it said, and we were told it basically translates to:

“on this day, I climbed to this point, in the corner of the church”

They keep mentioning how in a passage of the New Testament Jesus was celebrating Chanukah/ “Jesus would have celebrated Chanukah!” And that’s why they should celebrate to LMAOOO I can’t believe this

this is the worst thing ever this is ruining my Hanukkah and this is only the surface

Like… The very ESSENCE of Channukah is that it not only celebrates the miracle of the oil lasting eight days, it ALSO celebrates the victory of Jews over those who would seek to force them to assimilate. Over those who wanted us gone, our religion and culture destroyed. 

“the torah says [x]” doesn’t mean “the torah says this and so this is what everyone does bc that’s the torah”

“the torah says [x]” means “for the next several thousand years people are going to argue about what exactly this means, what the loopholes are, how many different ways this can be interpreted, whether we should even follow it, and hey maybe gd isn’t even real so maybe the question is how this impacts us and our society, what are the implications, etc”

judaism is not “the torah says sodomy is an abhorrence therefore the entire religion is intrinsically homophobic and gd hates gays and is gonna send us to hell for being gay” because that is not how judaism works AT ALL

if you’re a prospective convert, if you’re someone who’s interested in theology, if you’re someone who thinks you know enough about judaism to talk about it on the internet, it is ESSENTIAL to understand these things.

T -tired

R- really tired

A - always tired

N - need a snooze

obsession with the girl he was dating, thinking she hated her when really she was jealous of him.

theatre is gay

she loves drama

high femme

never ended up with a boyfriend because she was gay

best friends with her gay brother

only sings romantic duets with her gay brother because she’s also gay

determined to “stick to status quo” due to internalised homophobia

Pokémon GO PVP & Battle Leagues

With Player vs Player announced for Pokemon GO we are introduced to a new feature

The Pokémon GO Trainer Battle Leagues: Great, Ultra, and Master

The leagues will restrict the Pokémon the player is allowed to use by the Pokémon CP

Here’s a breakdown of each Battle League’s requirements:

🏆 Great League: 1,500 CP limit per Pokémon

🏆 Ultra League: 2,500 CP limit per Pokémon

🏆 Master League: No CP limit per Pokémon

Only 3 Pokémon can be selected in the Player vs Player Battles in Pokémon GO