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On weird and INCREDIBLE NEWS: I painted the cover for this book! 😁❤

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I'd heard about the book, didn't realize who was writing. ALSO didn't know who was doing the audio book...

The gender swap in the characters is *chefs kiss

Hey I know it's long but reblog this version of the post actually

Ok but do Merry and Pippin and Frodo have jobs? Or are they just? Chilling?? Like Sam is a gardener obviously, but what the fuck do the others do? I get that theyre Rich Kids(TM), but what do they do all day?

Merry and Pippin are the heirs of important political figures in the Shire, so they probably prepare for when they’ll take over those positions or something. But what does Frodo do?? Is he just the Professional Nerd Of Bag End?????

Frodo’s job is to be the Mysterious Bilbo Baggins’ Nephew, and just do weird shit, so that the other hobbits have something to gossip about while they do actual work

Only the kind of political power that comes with being wealthy and related to everyone who matters (Frodo is related to both Merry and Pippin), which officially isn’t much, but unofficially is A Fair Amount

So what youre saying is that Frodo and Bilbo are kinda like the Kasdashians…….bc that seems fair enough tbh

That is exactly what I’m saying

Every time I think I don’t really care about lotr anymore I remember that it’s the story of Sam as he helps 3 trust fund babies do physical labor for the first time in their life

Aren’t they landed hobbit gentry or something?

The Tooks and Brandybucks, despite being richer than the Bagginses, have a reputation of being adventurous and not very ”hobbit-like”, which is why I believe the people in Hobbiton thought it was noble of Bilbo to adopt Frodo from Brandy Hall, because he’s a ~nice Baggins~ and doesnt fit in among the crazy Bucklanders. Buckland is known to not be as peaceful as the rest of the Shire. But it’s strange as well, because at that point, Bilbo, despite being a Baggins, was known to be the most eccentric of them all, after he came home from his adventure, and was known amongst the locals as ”Mad Baggins”

I’m a pacifist like institutionally but I’m absolutely certain that violence solves at least some problems on a much smaller level. I don’t believe in wars or nuclear weapons or military campaigns I do believe in the power of that guy who punched the nazi in the face so hard his entire media presence immediately crumbled to dust

It’s like a controlled burn to prevent a forest fire.

“You never pretended to be a bride when you were a little girl?” No???? Like literally never?

I made witch soups in my garden

@ihatejonarbuckle

@raeloganthesonic06fangirl

wholesome

It’s rare to see Garfield content on Tumblr that isn’t “Jon is a heartless monster” or “Garfield is some eldritch horror”

Look, some years aren’t graded as A/B/C/D/F or even pass/fail, but Last Bastard Standing. In a few weeks I will still be here and 2021 won’t be, so we’re going to count this as winning.

10/10 absolute badass response @marta-bee

Cosigned

Gordon Tootoosis, Aboriginal Canadian actor, activist, and band chief of Cree and Iyarhe Nakoda descent, as Cecil Delaronde in Canadian TV series Blackstone.

[image description: two stills of Gordon Tootoosis, captioned, “Leadership is about submission to duty, not elevation to power.” end description.]

I need this.

Reblogged last year, hoping it comes this year

Well holy sh×t.

This concept is fundamental to Pterry’s writing, and comes up numerous times in the Discworld. He conceived of a morphogenic field which determines the shape of an organism, and in turn affects its nature. (It was a big deal with the werewolf characters.) I’m not surprised to see it turn up in Good Omens. It also gives me a lot of thoughts about Crowley re: snake form.

very cool how the gender binary in the emerging trad terf synthesis is like, there are two genders, the one that does bad things and the one that bad things are done to. the only thing in the world is immorality and it flows from unexperiencing agents to unacting experiencers.

which naturally appeals to people who would like to be perceived as inherently lacking the capacity for immorality. for whatever reason

anyway remember bell hooks’s very cogent critique of second-wave feminist organizing in ‘sisterhood: solidarity between women’ where she argues that by “bonding as ‘victims’, white women’s liberationists were not required to assume responsibility for confronting the complexity of their own experience … Identifying as ‘victims’, they could abdicate responsibility for their role in the maintenance and perpetuation of sexism, racism, and classism.” it’s not by accident that terf gender essentialism dovetails so much with other biological-determinist & essentialist assumptions including Extremely Racist Ones