wheemp wheemp

don't roast me i know the difference between astronomy and astrology i just wrote the original in a fugue state at work while conceptualizing alien porn

A lot of the really funny moments in Lord of the Rings come from Tolkien playing with language like this, where we have relatively formal, archaic, “high” language responded to with informal, modern, “low” language. 

I like how in the first example Gandalf is employing the kind of sass that the hobbits have been using on him for generations now.

sci fi is all about getting so scared and ripping tubes out of yourself. people miss this

sci fi is all about desperately trying to reclaim your violated bodily autonomy. it’s all about asserting that you are a being with agency, and you can choose what happens to your own person, even if that’s ripping tubes out of yourself. and also sometimes an alien is there