issit a birb?

I’m rereading the Fellowship of the Ring (I haven’t read the trilogy in many years) and was struck by how Tolkien has Gildor (of the House of Finrod) be the first named elf to meet the hobbits. It’s the first connection between the immortal elves and the mortal hobbits (named and in-text interaction for the reader, anyway), and I really love the sort of calling back it makes of Finrod and him meeting Men for the first time. A repeat of that early kindness and kinship between two different people. It's not exactly the same, of course, but there’s enough of that echo for me to think that Tolkien chose Gildor to be from the House of Finrod on purpose.

Wild that folks keep saying beekeepers abuse bees as if bees are not both venomous flying animals and fully unionized

Hubris to think you COULD abuse bees

I think that if you see a balrog in an unlocked kitty kennel then you can assume that it wants to be there

It is so fucking bold of you to link the exact same paywalled book thirteen times in your reblog to throw people off the fact that you're using one source from 1859.

I don't think there's ever been a funnier vegan response in the history of this hell site. This is actual gold. If you cited an argument like this in a first year undergrad intro to bio module, then your lecturer would be legally entitled to fire you out of a cannon. I think I'm dying

I have heard a variant on it that I really like: "You cannot hate yourself into someone you can love."

the thing that stuck with me (that I'm sure I stole from a tumblr post) was "if hating yourself worked, it would have worked by now."

For all its faults Tumblr has truly ruined all other social media for me because my friends all have Instagram and are all trying to get me on Instagram more but every time I open Instagram there are like fifteen things screaming for my attention and when I get over myself long enough to start scrolling it's like. Where is my chronological dash. Where is the following-only option. Who are these people. Why are there so many videos. Everyone is screaming at me. And then before I know it I'm thirty minutes into scrolling and I haven't seen a single thing that I actually care about. At least on Tumblr when I see stuff I don't care about I know someone I follow has found a new interest.

I really need a show where each episode they get a random member of the public on, tell them what period of history/what part of the world their features were considered attractive in and then tailor them a whole historical outfit from that place/era.

that looks like a condom and the fact that everyone in the notes is saying “the orb” proves that no one on this website fucks

the fuck kinda bouncy-ball ass condoms are you using

the fact that someone thinks that looks like a condom is proof that no one on this website fucks

5 reblog additions later and this post is still best summarized by "no one on this website fucks"

Where's that tweet about how American chants are "let's go [team name] and some other country (Irish?) fans are "I've made up a song about the other team's drinking problem to the tune of London Bridge Is Falling Down one two three"?

LOTR characters randomly breaking into song every other chapter suddenly makes so much sense now 🤣

That last addition took me the frick out. Sending this to everyone ever posthaste.

the least realistic thing about star trek is that starfleet uniforms don’t have pockets and nobody complains about it

what if i find a cool rock and want to take it home with me

Every time a member of the USS Enterprise has found a cool rock and taken it home, it has resulted in eleven deaths, six temporal displacements, the holodecks breaking again, and somebody getting turned into a lizard. Pockets are a privilege, not a right.

Thank god they decided to make more

But In doing so…she created her biggest enemy…Jolene

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