The Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool

i work in healthcare, in a field with a lot of older patients, in a red state. i also wear a kippah, which means i get quite a few sweet older folks holding my hands and telling me how as christians they have a special love in their heart for the jews. i smile and nod at them, because i understand their good intentions, but the historical irony amuses me quite a bit. because until very recently in history, christians did not in face have a special love in their heart for jews, unless you define “special love” as “murderous intent” lmao

Smug face of a free man

I have been banned from continuing to discuss the existence of the French Revolution in the Bridgerton universe at family dinners

So since the fandom has come the the (correct) conclusion that Samwise Gamgee is the absolute height of hobbit attractiveness standards, it only follows logically that hobbits see Sam working for Frodo as the middle earth equivalent of your weird eccentric rich neighbor having a hot pool boy. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[ID: gifs from the Granada Sherlock Holmes series. Watson (Hardwicke) says, “Cockfighting is forbidden by law.” Holmes smiles, holding a cigarette in one hand, then says seriously, “Many things are forbidden by law.” End ID]

There are multiple chapters that are set in hospitals where the characters are attempting to recover from injuries that never fully heal. I must once again stress that my experience in WWI was perfectly normal.

There is a giant horrible mudplain full of unrecoverable and perfectly preserved dead bodies that the characters have to walk through in a land where the air is poisoned gas, and on a compLETELY UNRELATED NOTE: WWI WAS TOTALLY FINE AND NORMAL!!

lesbian scifi is so easy. here’s a woman in cargo pants and a tank top on a spaceship. are you with me

maybe it’s not even cargo pants. maybe it’s coveralls rolled to + tied around the waist. maybe she even has fuckoff boots

bro doesnt even have the jennies (certain je ne sais quois)

Can we stop with the character development. Where's my beach episode.

Ooh maybe there was an actual cavalry, but then they all went extinct so the function of the "cavalry" evolved into being a ceremonial position and became a codename over time

The fact of the matter is that I do not want to do it

"do what?" you might wonder. well. [gestures broadly]