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It is hope and love and compassion that saves each character individually, and because of that, the world. Frodo fails in the end, but his acts of compassion from earlier in the story save the day. And even as the world is saved, it is acknowledged that Frodo failed—without judgement, without blame. He fails, and he is still loved.

And like what can happen in the real world, he is still irrevocably changed by his trauma. But there is still hope—he has to leave, but he leaves with the promise of healing, and the promise that his ever-faithful Sam will follow.

Aragorn, Boromir, Frodo, Sam; each and every one of the characters are driven by their love of the people around them and their hope for the future. They cling to that love and hope throughout their trials, and that bears them through.

Of course people are watching it for comfort!!!! Lotr is eternally consistent in its promise, which Sam articulates so clearly in The Two Towers: “Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it’ll shine out the clearer.”

I miss the mechs (<- never went to a concert,found out about them years after they disbanding /silly)

Mechs comeback tour when??? I'll swear I'll find a job and fly my ass to the UK.

What stood out to me was all the CDs they were selling and the cool art and inserts! I remember I just kept going back and forth on if I should buy some or not. I hadn't even listened to all their stuff yet. And I wasn't sure how big of an interest of mine it would be and was like what if it's just a phase so I decided to not get anything. And then a couple weeks later it subsumed me and became one of my biggest interests ever.

And I've since mellowed out a bit but I still love them so much and am so crazy about the mechs and sometimes I think about this and kick myself bc I LOVEEEE CDs soooo much and the mechs are one of my top favorite bands and I would LOVE to have their awesome CDs myself but alas..... I do not......

I miss the mechs (<- never went to a concert,found out about them years after they disbanding /silly)

Mechs comeback tour when??? I'll swear I'll find a job and fly my ass to the UK.

What stood out to me was all the CDs they were selling and the cool art and inserts! I remember I just kept going back and forth on if I should buy some or not. I hadn't even listened to all their stuff yet. And I wasn't sure how big of an interest of mine it would be and was like what if it's just a phase so I decided to not get anything. And then a couple weeks later it subsumed me and became one of my biggest interests ever.

And I've since mellowed out a bit but I still love them so much and am so crazy about the mechs and sometimes I think about this and kick myself bc I LOVEEEE CDs soooo much and the mechs are one of my top favorite bands and I would LOVE to have their awesome CDs myself but alas..... I do not......

frying dough

some people have been trying to rehabilitate the idea of "TVP for trans men," and I'd like to ask that these projects don't try to deliberately style themselves as counterparts to TVP

TVP is not the pink version of something blue, its existence since the outset has been as a fundamentally transfeminist project, and this purpose will be trivialized if it is presented on the same "shelf" as anything else, so to speak. TVP centers transfems because we are decentered everywhere else. if there is a companion project, our voices will inevitably be decentered in favor of it

You see the vision!

the terf in my inbox was yelling at me about how the shower menstruation scene is integral, but nobody thinks about the horror trans girls deal with on a daily basis just trying to use regular public facilities.

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