French Vanilla

Opting out of third-party sharing does apply even when other people reblog it.

I've seen a lot of people say otherwise, and I don't blame them--Tumblr should have shouted this from the rooftops, but I only learned it from the detailed information page about privacy options.

The quote: "Prevent third-party sharing

This option will prevent your blog's content, even when reblogged, from being shared with our licensed network of content and research partners, including those that train AI models."

The page: https://help.tumblr.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011611747-Privacy-options#01H692KHGF5N3SVHDV02P5W34P

From instructions on how to opt out, look at the official staff post on the topic. It also gives more information on Tumblr's new policies. If you are opting out, remember to opt out each separate blog individually.

If you're on your computer, go to "ACCOUNT" located on the Left <-side bar, and choose for the blog you want to shield from the artificial onlookers. (Side note: You're gonna have to do this to each blog you have... ughhh.. they don't make it easy.) ANyway, choose one of your blogs and click it.

Once there, go to the Right -> side bar, and click on "BLOG SETTINGS."

Your Blog's page set up should be set up like this. Now, scroll allll the way down (it's near the damn BOTTOM >:( ) Until you get to a Section Called, "VISIBILITY."

But the older I get, the more important it becomes to me that Eowyn is in a really dark place mentally when we first meet her in the book. That she rides to war out of suicidality, to get herself killed in battle. And that she heals, finds the will to live, finds the desire to heal things and make things beautiful rather than attempting to give her life meaning through dying a "glorious" violent death in battle.

I think when I was 12-ish and first read the book (or had it read to me as a bedtime story, rather, but same difference), I liked her because "oh look cool girl warrior character who doesn't do what she's told and defeats the monstrous evil bad guy no one else could kill!" And that is. that's fair, honestly. I was 12. I don't think I would want my 12-year-old self to have fully grasped the implications of Eowyn's actions, to have really understood that underlying despair and suicidality. I liked cool warrior girl heroes (I still do, honestly). And Eowyn does do amazing things, she is a hero, she does fulfill the prophecy and kill the Witch King, and it is cool, I'm not saying it isn't.

But like. Living in this world, reading the news, a lot of times I end up feeling just this utter despair and horror and helplessness at the bad things happening. And because of that, I really do end up feeling it when I look at Eowyn and see her despair, see how she's trying to die in battle because she doesn't want to go on living like that anymore and because she thinks her death in battle would make more difference and be more meaningful than her going on living.

And it's just so important to me that then at the end of the story, she's able to look at where she is and who she is and look at the world and go "no, actually, I want to live. I've had enough of death, I want to heal things, I want to make other people and other things also live". That she's able to want that, and believe that she is able to achieve that, that her life can have a purpose and meaning beyond a death worth telling a story about, and that that's something she wants to do, wants to work towards. It is just so important to me

Basically it's during the scene at the Green Dragon where everyone is drinking and having a good time, but Gaffer Gamgee is gossiping about the strange happenings of the world and how he believes there is a war brewing, but one of the men with which he is gossiping (Sandyman i think) ends the conversation by saying "Well it's none of our concern what goes on beyond our borders. Keep your nose out of trouble and no trouble will come to you."

Now for those who read the book this is a big moment of dramatic irony because we know that the residents of the shire "mind their own business" for the duration of the story, but the run off of evil still gets to them and the Shire gets conquered by evil in the absence of our protagonists.