Ugggggggh

The funniest thing that happened in tma was those two episodes when half the entities ganged up against catholicism.

literally so hilarious how so many tolkien fans are obsessed with canon. there is next to no official canon. the only thing that’s fully canon is the lord of the rings, part of the silmarillion and the hobbit (and that’s debatable, even). tolkien had no idea what was canon, he was switching things up all the time. so just pick a version you like a go with it, nobody knows what’s going on. tolkien changed little details over and over to the point where he never finished most of his work, like 25% of the silmarillion is just christopher tolkien smashing notes together and praying it’s what the vision was

Oh boy have I pissed off the transphobes with this one.

the father the son and the holy spirit

also the paternalism surrounding kids and what they're "too young to understand" is crazy. My current summer group of 4th-6th graders know in broad strokes why the Scramble for Africa happened. They know different parts of Africa were targeted for different reasons. They can tell me about Residential Schools and the American Frontier Wars and how Black and Indigenous people have historically been mistreated by the US government. They know the truth about the US Railroads, and that they shouldn't be saying the words skinwalker or windigo if they're not native. They know what a microaggression is (even if they don't remember the word for it afterwards). None of this has done any long-lasting damage to their psyche. They carry themselves and interact with their peers in a noticeably different way after learning these things. Teach Your Kids About Bad Shit.

ok note to self i gotta leave the house regularly so that i dont feel like im slowly transforming into an evil fucking shadow clone of myself

i just found out ppl didn't like or didn't read the footnotes in babel bc they're "just additional information" and i just want to say rEAD THEM PLS BABEL IS MEANT TO READ LIKE A MEMOIR A NONFICTION HISTORICAL ACCOUNT THE FOOTNOTES AREN'T THERE JUST FOR STYLISTIC PURPOSES IT'S MEANT TO IMMERSE YOU INTO THE SPECULATIVE NATURE OF THE STORY LET YOURSELF BE IMMERSED THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T APPRECIATE THE BOOK YOU'RE NOT ENGAGING WITH IT IN THE WAY YOU'RE MEANT TO READ THE FOOTNOTES

....The hell do you mean people aren't reading the footnotes??? What do you MEAN???

I say shit like "If my memory serves me" knowing damn well it serves the dark lord

fool me once shame on you fool me twice whyyy that’s so mean fool me three times ohhh my goddd