Just A Buzzy Bee

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

can you imagine how good shows would be if writers thought of women as human beings

Honestly it boils down to reparenting yourself & rewiring your own neuronal pathways & telling yourself a firm “stop” when you notice your mind slipping down negative loopholes & being present in the moment & enjoying being mid task rather than waiting for it to end & not thinking of inertia as your baseline and natural way of living

So tempting to keep embarking on the same self destructive cycle over & over & over again . But at some point you have to put ur foot down w ur own behaviors & be the thing that truly saves u

#this is unfortunately true#it’s not easy to tell yourself Hey Drop It#like you’re your own dog furtively eating pinecones and rocks#but you gotta#sometimes it’s a Hey We’re Not Doing That#you gotta though

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

I am in love with you /p

Adding Faceblind Prince Charming and Cinderella

adding the Doctors Without Borders one

WAIT REBLOG THIS VERSION INSTEAD

one of my favorite lotr facts is that gondorians speak sindarin as a first language and yet when faramir was talking to frodo and sam about cirith ungol he was like “we don’t know what’s in there.” like faramir. cirith ungol is sindarin for “pass of the spider.” do the math

to be fair, you’d assume the name means “there’s a lot of spiders here,” not, “there is one spider the size of a draft horse here.” so you go up expecting to have to shoo a lot of skeeter eaters out of your tent, and instead you have to figure out how to rope and shoe godzillarantula.

“The average spider on Middle Earth is the size of a dinner plate” is a statistical error. The average spider on Middle Earth is smaller than a coin. Cirith Ungol (lit: Spiders Gorge), which contains a spider larger than a horse, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

OH MY GOD

I was waiting for the Spiders George reference

“I wonder why it’s called ‘’The Spider’s Pass’‘. I expected it to be more octagonal. Like a spider. Oh, well, I guess they misnamed it.” 

im going to give them the benefit of the doubt that they thought ‘the spiders stair’ meant ‘its a bitch to climb if you arent a goat’ and not ‘warning- ungoliants‘ their whole world is full of issues like this- every third place has a spooky ass name that you arent sure if its a euphemism, accurate, or was accurate 3000 years ago. nobody realizes ‘fangorn forest’ means ‘theres a tree named fangorn who lives here, its his forest, he likes poetry’, nobody realizes ‘the barrow downs’ should be warning you that anything is particular noteworthy about the barrows it just says they exist, im not even sure the ‘blue mountains’ are even blue

I mean sure but also we don’t need to WONDER if Frodo (and incidentally also Sam, although I don’t think he knows Sindarin so he wouldn’t have known it was relevant, but he would have had the same context as Frodo) knows about the big spiders in mirkwood, because THEY ARE IN BILBO’S BOOK WHICH HE HAS READ

literally Spiders Gorge

@the-watchful-metatron

knuckle tats say FOUC AULT

knuck tats saying POST, and on the other hand, having transcended the limitations of the form, STRUCTURALIST

worst part about being stealth is occasionally your philosophy lecturer will come out with something so raw ("the potential for change always comes first, you are your capacity to change before you are a boy or a girl or a student") and you just have to pretend to be normal about it

like i’m picturing him being really careful and looking at it and carrying it exactly like this while walking or riding through the woods and across rivers and up mountains and through valleys and he doesn’t drop it even once except at the very end where he tidily drops it into the volcano. frodo sam and the crew and even gollum wholly undisturbed. sauron can’t find him bc of the meditative aura surrounding him which is generated by his immense focus on not dropping it

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