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swampdiamonds replied to your photoset: The Terrace Houses at Ephesus were so fucking...

Gogol this is the coolest fuckin thing I’ve ever seen, I can’t stop looking at all the fancy floors

my first depressing thought: are there five nienor moments? 😭😭😭 THERE ARE AND THEY’RE ALL ICONIC

1. The confrontation with Morwen after we find out she was following in disguise… That’s the most character-defining moment in the book and every time I reread it I feel like I can see it vividly, the contrast between her youthful, golden, ‘masculine’ aesthetic in the garb of a tall elven soldier versus Morwen’s somber, older, ‘feminine’ aesthetic in the role of a mournful mother…. I love that we can see someone who can think very clearly and logically, who’s resourceful and reasonable and capable, but who’ll still jeopardize her safety (and other people’s) out of family loyalty, which is how she learned to love, I love how she knows exactly how to be assertive with Morwen (which also makes me 1000% sure they rarely ever argued if at all), oh well, it’s a perfect scene, not a single hair our of place there, 10/10, best introduction any character in any tolkien work has ever had (and yes i am counting treebeard and sam on this one). unforgettable. 

2. There’s a reason Nienor’s meeting with Glaurung is the scene artists ever seem to choose to depict…. the children of húrin at least are not craven… Nienor tries to stare a dragon down???  (also enough proof to me that nienor spent time putting together a mental picture of Túrin based on what scraps of stories she could acquire from Morwen and the other residents of Morwen’s house ;-; my lonely girl ilhsm)

3. 

Brandir: you’re pregnant and maybe depressed… please chill

Nienor: watch this:

‘Men of Brethil! I will not wait here. If my lord fails, then all hope is false. Your land and woods shall be burned utterly, and all your houses laid in ashes, and none, none, shall escape. Therefore why tarry here? Now I go to meet the tidings and whatever doom may send. Let all those of like mind come with me!’

(And like a bunch of people go “out of pity of Niniel and desire to befriend her”… this book is too much… )

4. Maybe it’s not Woke enough to say this, but I really like the Strange Change scene where Nienor just bolts and starts running throughout the forest ending with her on finduilas’s burial site, just because it’s a really beautiful scene…. sorry im shallow

  the fact that there’s a weird angel guy called proginoskes sort of makes me want to read it but lbr I hate philosophy, this is a tragedy bc all the weird angel guys are in philosophy    

it was a super freaky journey-to-the-center-of-the-mind thing where they and proginoskes kidnap their school principal and astral-project into a mitochondrion and try to telepathically convince these little magic shrimpy creatures called farandolae who live in everyone’s mitochondria to fight a galaxy-sized (?) shadow monster (?) who might be satan (?) bc size is Fake and also there are really extended psychic torture scenes. i don’t think there was TOO much philosophy but uh kid-me did not have a normal gauge for what qualifies as ‘too much philosophy’

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   Oh man these posts are motivating me to dig out and photograph some of my and my dad’s vintage SF/F paperbacks, we have some real gems…and some real “"gems”“.    

OMG OMG OMG I WANNA SEE THESE SO BAD esp if there’s anything recognizable to i, a general non-fan of vintage sci-fi novels

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   The Dragonriders Of Pern series has some great international 70s-present covers    

these are all adorable! I especially love the fierce bby at bottom left

added to TBR | on my TBR | couldn’t finish it | did not enjoy | it was OK | liked it | loved it | favorite | not interested

omg please tell us more about the emu farming scam ��

Now i’m unsure whether it was emus or ostriches tbh BUT BASICALLY this company convinced a lot of people (all over the country) that ostriches reproduced SO FAST, and so that if you bought a few animals you’d have ridiculously fast and high financial return. Ostrich meat was also supposed to become the next Big Thing in the World, and the company promised to rebuy the animals you bought after a couple years, something something, I don’t remember very well... but  it worked like a pyramid scheme and they went as far as to buy some land near recife to set up a fakey ostrich ranch with like, idk, 30k animals at most, when they were supposed to have more than half a million? And in all the years the company worked they NEVER ACTUALLY PRODUCED OR SOLD A SINGLE GRAM OF OSTRICH MEAT... it was really just a chill farm....  My father knows people who put their money into it avsgbdhbfhbr 

I want to eat that cloud

alkarinque replied to your photoset “It’s time for you, the viewer, to imagine something stupid: me...”

intensely compelled to eat these photos omg

swampdiamonds replied to your photoset “It’s time for you, the viewer, to imagine something stupid: me...”

I cannot stop looking at this fog, how is this real!!

anoteinpink replied to your photoset “It’s time for you, the viewer, to imagine something stupid: me...”

mist u could cut with a knife