Trying my best to be positive as heck 😎👌

like ur not getting mr erebor 3000 to move to the shire Ever and ur not getting mr shire 3000 to move to erebor Ever!!! neither of those things are happening!!!

bagginshield can only exist on the road, in that tenuous stretch of time between one home and another, when ‘home’ is synonymous with ‘partnership’ and as transient as the passing stream THERE IS NO BAGGINSHIELD AFTER THE FACT!

in an ideal world, where Thorin lives and Fili and Kili do too, even after the party has settled and the dragon is dead, you’re telling me BILBO BAGGINS is not going RIGHT back home? he was always going to go home. HE WAS ALWAYS GOING TO GO HOME.

because the thing that fuels him, the fundamental injustice he sees before him, the great wrong that must be righted is that Home; this beautiful, necessary, indelible fixture of the heart has been Stripped away from these people, and there is no injustice so terrible as that! the lack of Home!

Because before the journey, he was already ostracised for most of his life for being different than a typical Hobbit, and when he did come back, he stood out even more. Hell, he barely had people there who he could count on seeing as the moment they thought him dead, they decided to rob him!

Knowing that, would it be so crazy to believe that, without the grief and pain after losing people who he valued and loved so deeply, he would like to stay? Personally, I don't think so. Perhaps he would go back, but I don't think he would stay for long because in the end what is a Home? Sometimes it's a place, sure, but sometimes it's the people who make it and with Bilbo it could go either way imo.

morpho books

figure drawing for all it's worth (+ creative illustration)

framed ink

will eisner comics and sequential art

will eisner graphic storytelling and visual narrative

understanding comics (+ making comics)

folder of various animation production art

burne hogarth drawing dynamic hands

perspective for comic book artists

michael mattesi force drawing

the animator's survival kit

color and light james gurney

The only reason a fascist EVER agrees to a debate (and the reason they continue to demand them) and that they count on two things: an unprepared opponent and a platform to further their own message.

No one is immune to propaganda, but by knowing how it works and remembering to think critically and fact-check the claims you come across, you can be better prepared and less likely to be duped into agreeing with or passing on bad information and bigotry.

You do not understand

Most modern Ag operations don’t even have a proper A-Horizon. They’re too busy turning the earth every time they replant. The A-horizon is the Black Gold that makes Soil Soil. It’s a structurally complex soil horizon that must be built in place by the interactions of Plants and Fungi and Insects. It is The Thing that soaks up rain and holds onto it for plants. The A-Horizon is The Thing that builds up when you let a field sit fallow. The act of tilling creates fecundity by breaking up the A-horizon. On a really good Organic no-till farm you might find an A-horizon between 3-6 inches.

His A-horizon was 4 feet deep. 50 inches.

I-

I have no context. His farm was covered in a living skin thick enough for a child to stand in.

Gives me hope for what we could accomplish if we got our collective heads on straight, you know? Like. This was one guy. A brilliant man, who knew what he was up to, but. The thing about brilliant ideas is they can be shared.

Humus, or Humic Compounds, are a cryptic and poorly understood set of organic substances. As the final metabolic result of once-living things being digested first by macroscopic organisms, and then by microorganisms, they resist most forms of analysis, and have cryptic structures. A few that we have managed to isolate and study are the Humic & Fulvic Acids.

Humus has a number of remarkable tendencies. It is capable of retaining water far better than any raw mineral clay; it also retains electrically charged clay granules, which themselves retain mineral ions, all of which is essential to make a soil a high-quality resource for Plants to grow in.

A composter is a box that contains an environment that is conducive to the production of Humus, but the best way to produce it is in-place, by laying layers of organic material down over an unbroken earth and growing things out of that. The interaction of the plants rooting, the fungus weaving itself through everything, the bacteria and archaea metabolizing as they do, and inorganic weathering forces all combine to gradually build up the microscopic equivalent of a complex megastructure capable of retaining far more water, and containing far more nutrients, than any inorganic substrate.

This stuff is black gold. This is the stuff that determines whether or not a plot of land is going to be “productive.” The knowledge of how to make it, how to care for it, is an essential piece of wisdom that our civilization needs to remember.

Fortunately, folks seem to have the right response:

Farmers are more important to the continuity of civilization than administrators, no matter what the elitists say. This knowledge is important.

I downloaded the PDF to my hard drive and I open it again whenever I'm feeling too suicidal to do much else, but not enough to start booking a ride to the hospital. And every time without fail I only go up to a few pages before backing off and choosing to live another day just because suicide suddenly seems even more unbearable than whatever the hell upset me in the first place.

All the book really does is [I'm pulling a summary from GoodReads here as, again, I've read no more than 5 pages] "discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the consequences of a suicide attempt, and how to get help."

But it also starts with the author kindly asking the reader to complete the book before going through with anything, and for some reason I'm compelled to really just try to read it all before finalizing everything. Despite not yet completing it (hopefully never will) I think I can safely say it's saved my life at least a few times now.

And the worst part is that nobody has probably saved it anywhere!! It's a niche fandom of a polish TV series with 37 works of that pairing IN TOTAL. I hate it here. I tried to even find the author here or on twitter. Nothiiiing.

So, I was desperately searching for something and I've found author's caard!! Where he mentioned his other accounts, on twitter and insta. So I will probably at least try to ask if it was by choice or if it has something to do with ao3 itself

No butler would EVER help in the kitchen. And if you cannot afford a cook, you definitely cannot afford a butler... Take your fetish seriously!

I had to look that last part up. New word achievement unlocked!

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