[sans titre]

The lineage of ring bearers is as follows.

Sauron.

Isildur

Deagol

Sméagol

Bilbo

Frodo

1. Home, the finger of my creator and other self.

2. Well, I don’t like it but I can work with this. Cause some trouble, get some revenge, find my way home, this is fine.

3. What the fuck is you?

4. Right personality, wrong species, I don’t know what you are but I hate you and I don’t know why you’re so resistant to my powers.

5. NO NO NO there are goblins everywhere how did I find another one of THESE horrible things. This one’s even more resistant than the last one and also disgustingly nice. I suffer.

6. Listen, I’ll cooperate, just get me the fuck out of this hellhole full of small cheerful people my power doesn’t work on properly. No, not like that. I hate you. Please stop. 

7. FUCK

8. (Frodo again) I still hate you with every molecule of my mortal form but at least you’re not number seven. Think I’m starting to get through finally. 

If you view all religion/spirituality as universally bad or regressive, you're being unbelievably callous toward every marginalized person whose faith has been used against them.

I'm not a Christian.

Y'all have it in your heads that "religion = oppressive Christian institutions" and you NEED to unpack and process and move past that, because it's causing you to perpetuate bigotry, whether you realize it or not.

You can't be an ally to marginalized people if you constantly degrade important parts of their cultures. You can't claim to be against things like antisemitism and Islamophobia if you're happily perpetuating the idea that religion is "backwards" and "useless."

In court that day, the judge asked the boy, “Are you afraid?” No, the boy said.

Pipes says the judge seemed surprised, and asked, “Why not?”

Chief’s thesis was that a child who has been abused by an adult can benefit psychologically from the presence of even more intimidating adults that they know are on their side. “When we tell a child they don’t have to be afraid, they believe us,” Arizona biker Pipes told azcentral.com. “When we tell them we will be there for them, they believe us.” ( Article)

They go on runs to protect the child if they feel even the slightest threatened no matter where. If the child needs them to go on vacation with them, they do. Bikers come from across the nation to watch over and take shifts for these kids. And the best part is once you’re adopted into this family as a BACA kid, you’re always one. Even when you’re 40 and the perp gets released from jail, they’ll come meet with you and find your best options for avoiding the person and maintaining the life you’ve built for yourself. Once a BACA child, always a BACA child. In Florida, there’s 100% rate for identifying the perp based on the child’s testimony. Why? Because BACA stands with the child and supports the child so they feel comfortable enough to point out their attacker.

They’re in Canada as well and probably other countries. I met and talked with a native guy who runs the place near me. His name is Shaman. I got in, and I’m considered a BACA child now. Despite being 17, turning 18 when I talked to them. They spent time with me when my abuser was over, they gave me therapy resources. They give you something called a ‘level 1′ where they go to your house with as many bikers as they can, i shit you not a solid 20-40 bikers came from even out of province, and met me. I got to choose my biker name and I got a vest with patches on it and my name on it. They all hugged a Teddybear before giving it to me, and told me if I ever felt the BACA bear was running out of love, to give them a call and they’d refill it for me, and then I got a ride on one of their bikes. Just a day or so ago I went to an annual party with them and they we ate food one of them cooked and had a lot of laughs. 

I’ve never felt as loved as I did being a part of the BACA family. They also gave me dog tags with the names, and phone numbers of my 2 workers.  So I can call them whenever I feel scared. 

BACA is an absolutely wonderful group that will do everything in it’s power to help any child whos been abused. 

And it doesn’t end when you’re 18 either. As long as you get in contact/get your level 1 before you’re 18? you’re ALWAYS a BACA kid. I’m 18 now and they still invite me to parties, ask me if I’m okay, and are there for me. They’re still trying to find me resources for therapy. 

BACA has changed my fucking life. 

1. sign up for a free deezer account 2. download python if you don't already have it 3. download deemix-pyweb for your os (r/deemix will have the link if this one breaks) 4. extract the zip, click on deemix-pyweb.exe, login in w/ your deezer arl in settings (it'll tell you how, it's very easy)

ta-da! now you can download multiple songs, albums, playlists, and entire artist catalogs at the same time! in mp3 or flac quality! all organized w/ album covers & info & everything else!

Fashions of the 1950s, as predicted in 1914.

...guys.

It's not too late.

Paul Gauguin was another prominent post-impressionist artist, and Van Gogh was really, really enamored with him. In all fairness, he looked like this:

Gogh convinced Gauguin to come visit and stay in his Yellow House, "hoping for friendship"- and when Gauguin agreed, Gogh went out and bought two beds for the house (previously pretty sparse, and just used as studio space).

Gauguin arrived September 17th of 1888, and when he agreed to live and work there for a while, Van Gogh started work on his most ambitious project yet: Décoration for the Yellow House, about 26 of his most well-known paintings, including the Sunflowers, The Night Cafe, and Starry Night Over the Rhone; all meant to decorate the Yellow House they were living in together.

Starry Night Over the Rhon, (September 1888)

So this dude was pining over Gauguin before he even showed up, begged him to move in, bought him a bed just so he could live here, and then embarked on his most ambitious painting project ever just to decorate their shared living space. I'm not saying a straight man couldn't, but...

Gauguin left the house for a bit after his stay, but "after much pleading from Gogh", he returned October 23rd to stay longer. They lived together, painted together, and traveled together- and the stay was apparently indefinite. As in, Gauguin had sort of just... moved in with him.

In December of 1888, their relationship began to deteriorate.

Van Gogh's mental health struggles are pretty well-known; he likely struggled with depression and anxiety, among other things. Gogh was fairly insecure and in need of reassurance that Gauguin "saw him as an equal", while Gauguin was self-assured, assertive, and apparently didn't give Gogh what he needed.

In December, Gogh likely realized that Gauguin was planning to leave the Yellow House- and, subsequently, him. Heavy rain kept the two men shut inside together for the following days, and when Gauguin left the house on December 23rd, Gogh followed him outside to argue- with a razor in hand, which he threatened to use on himself if Gauguin didn't come back (all according to Gauiguin's account of events).

Gauguin left, and Gogh went home alone. He was assaulted by auditory hallucinations, and attempted to cut his ear off- likely in an attempt to make them stop.

Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear, 1889

Gogh was delivered to the hospital, and his ear wound treated. He asked for Gauguin constantly. Gauguin told the police attending the case, "be kind enough, Monsieur, to awaken this man with great care, and if he asks for me tell him I have left for Paris; the sight of me might prove fatal for him." [x] He left Arlen without seeing Gogh again.

They continued to send letters to each other; in 1890, Gauguin suggested they form a studio together, but Gogh likely passed away before they could.

But like, was he really gay?

Van Gogh did try to find a wife, but seemed unable to. He gave up and focused on art after a while, and apparently frequented brothels as well. Despite all of this, there's no hard evidence he ever had sex with any women.

It's widely accepted that he did have romantic relationships with women; his letters also indicate that his relationship with Gaugin very well could have been romantic. A lot of scholars actually agree he was very likely bi!

I personally believe he was definitely interested in men (and Gauguin isn't the only man he's behaved that way toward- he gifted quite a few men with portraits), and I think it's pretty likely he was bi. I also think a lot of his behavior toward women indicates he might just have been repressed and closeted.

Either way, Vincent Van Gogh was almost definitely, for sure, probably 100% absolutely gay.

And then there’s bananas, from Papua New Guinea:

YES yeah yes uh-huh yep.

And Lizzie is 150% the kind of shady that takes screenshots and definitely has accidentally sent them to the wrong person before. The mortification of screenshotting one of Darcy’s fucking novellas and sending it back to him w several puke emojis that were meant for Jane.

He’s “🎩💎🎩Fitzwilliam 🎩💎🎩” in her phone and he thinks it’s charming or maybe fond but it’s really so she can have a giggle anytime he texts her.

The most agonizing fifteen minutes of Darcy’s life are after he sends his thousand word Love Confession Slash Neg and the three dots keep appearing and disappearing and he’s like “oh god what’s she gonna say” because Lizzie always replies IMMEDIATELY and finally she just responds like.

“Yikes dude”

hmm ok

1) their power depends on how physically close they are to sauron/mordor

2) they consciously weren’t unleashing their full power early in Fellowship bcos it didn’t seem worth it when they were just dealing w hobbits

3) they just woke up from a REALLY long nap and it takes them a while to fully come ‘online’

4) their power just waxes & wanes sometimes

6) they have essentially no bodily power - in addition to their sight, their abilities are also mostly derived from their mounts, so when they were on basically-dragons, one of them could force an entire military city to its knees just by flying over it; mounted on horses,they were Quite Intimidating in Bree, and eight of them gave Glorfindel a run for his money; on foot they could be defeated by Farmer Maggot's barking dog

7.) They kindly levelled up as the heroes did so it would be fair

8.) Sauron explicitly gains power throughout the series and possibly has more to share with his minions

9) the Shire exerts a dampening effect on all attempts at majesty... genius new theory in which the Ring is nearly harmless, Gandalf known mostly for his fireworks, the Witch-King of Angmar is reduced to interrupting tea parties, etc because the land is just not very magical at all

Galadriel: you're back early