An Eclectic Bundle Of Joy

it fucks me up that tolkien only died in 1973. dude has the vibe of a victorian scholar who wrote all his manuscripts by candlelight but then you look him up and realise that he knew what color tv was. what the fuck.

Tolkien had personal beef with the Beatles

He actively encouraged Led Zeppelin to write songs based on the LOTR series and considered it an honor

WHAT

The Queen of Denmark drew LoTR fanart 😮😩

I want to see more art from the Queen of Denmark please

#i think about this moment a lot #and how accurate it is #to how rich and poor #talk about hardship #something like a flood #or a global pandemic #doesn’t affect people the same #to lots of rich people #it will be a funny anecdote #how 2020 was weird #to others it was devastating #entire families gone (via jetgirl78)

I know this is going to make me sound pretensions but I have to get it off my chest. I feel an unimaginable rage when someone posts a photo and is like "this picture looks like a renaissance painting lol" when the photo clearly has the lighting, colors and composition of a baroque or romantic painting. There are differences in these styles and those differences are important and labeling every "classical" looking painting as renaissance is annoying and upsetting to me. And anytime I come across one of those posts I have to put down my phone and go take a walk because they make me so mad

op is a vampire who painted works in all of these times

👀

*chanting* Selkie! Selkie! Selkie!

AWWW THATS SO SWEET

One of the things I love about the classic World of Darkness is that all of the game lines ostensibly exist in the same universe in spite of having wildly different and totally incompatible metaphysics and creation myths – which would ordinarily just be a source of fun trivia, except the way certain critical game mechanics interact is vaguely defined in such a way that the most reasonable ruling depends on which version of the setting’s metaphysics you go with. The upshot is that if you get pulled into one of those who-would-win nerd slapfights and try to resolve it by reasoning from the rules, it turns into an honest-to-gods theological debate, and if you’re on Team Vampire, you have to become Catholic.

The mage: the ascension metaphysics is both sufficiently meta to incorporate all the others AND nicely dovetails into the world’s past being the setting of exalted, which is my favorite thing about the setting.

Mage: The Ascension’s metaphysics are so incoherent that rulings on basic game mechanics can turn into theological debates even without crossing over between game lines.

what are you talking about