Roselightfairy

meows loud as fuck shattering all glass within 3 miles no survivors

I really can and will blame the 9-5 for everything. "We're in a loneliness epidemic" well, we have to spend a third of our day interacting with people in a professional way that makes forming real friendships difficult and then we're peopled out by the time we're done. "People are eating more and more unhealthily" people have to spend more than a third of their day doing work related tasks and they don't want to spend their tiny amount of free time making food. "People aren't involved in their local communities" after spending more than a third of their day doing work related things people are tired and also all those community events take place during normal working hours. "People need to get more hobbies" after spending more than a third of their day working, people are TIRED and don't want to do anything that takes yet more energy. "Literacy is dying" to maintain your critical thinking skills you need to read/watch things that make you think and after spending more than a third of your day doing work related stuff you are TIRED and don't want to expend even more brainnpower. "People need to get outside more" People. Are. TIRED. Because they have to spend all of their time working or preparing for work or recovering from work or doing all the chores they couldn't stay on top of because of work. I can blame fucking anything on having to work, it is truly the root of all fucking evil.

Academic reading is just *places another book on hold* *places another book on hold* *looks up another article* *places another book on

I'll never be able to read it all...

You can replace [ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY] with [SCROLLING] but watch out. This sucks bad 👍

Working an office job will truly make you have the wildest enemies, bc why is my nemesis rn a woman I’ve never met and who exclusively haunts me by sending diabolical emails, and also a specific guy who left my company before I even worked here and made the system so fuckass that it ruined procedures for like a year

Actually I think there’s something interesting to be said for the fact that two of the most significant omissions in the movies are the very start and the very end of the journey, and both occur in the Shire. The omission of Tom Bombadil isn’t just Tom, it’s also the Old Forest, the barrow-wights, Old Man Willow, etc. I wonder if there’s some sort of parallel here with the Scouring of the Shire - because in truth, the Shire wasn’t a perfect idyll that, like everything else, could be corrupted and stolen as a home you can’t return to (or a perfect idyll that starts and ends the exact same way with no change as a contrast to your Grand Adventure, as per movieverse). There have always been peril and fear and hidden secrets in the Shire, malice from nature itself (the forest) and the remnants of war (the wights), and the hobbits have always been living right next to them and not talking/thinking about them. The difference with the Scouring is just that it comes directly into the lands where people are living - but it’s still in their territory; it’s still in their past and in their lives. The Shire has never been untouched; it’s only been through strength of stubbornness that that danger was ignored. And there’s probably something interesting there to explore that relates to the movie leaving both of these aspects out, something that’s more complex than the simple narrative of a corrupted home or an untouched home contrasting the Changed Heroes. I don’t know - I feel like the more I reread them, the more complex these books get for me.

I also think - and I could swear I’ve rambled about this before, but I can’t seem to find it, so either it’s all in my imagination or Tumblr ate it - that the early stages of the journey have a lot of echoes to the later stages, almost like they’re speedrunning their quest on easy (“easy”) mode. Frodo running ahead of the others because he thinks he sees the way out when they fall into the Barrow-wights’ trap; Merry getting the Black Breath in Bree; Tom Bombadil singing to them from the gloom like the phial and memory of Galadriel. Living trees! Unexpected haven in the midst of a dark journey (the elves, Farmer Maggot, Tom Bombadil). A guide through the final leg of the journey. So much of what they encounter is echoed throughout the books - and while yes, some of that is just storytelling, it would be interesting to study those specific echoes.

Write that one-shot. Those 3 chapters will be the best 10 chapters you ever wrote

has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing

“For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”

something something “I’m a person and my name is Anakin” showing his name is a central way he retains identity while a child slave vs “that name no longer has any meaning to me” in almost the same breath as “I must obey my master” thirty years later after Sidious accomplished what Gardulla and Watto never managed to: breaking his spirit and convincing him he has no other options but obedience, accepting painful consequences, never looking for a way out. something like that

man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great