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today in defenses of boromir that no one asked for: tired of reading that boromir’s death was in vain because he failed to save merry & pippin from the uruk-hai.  the fact that this clearly important warrior was willing to die to protect those two is what convinced the urukhai that they had indeed captured the halfing who carried whatever important thing saruman wanted.  they took the hobbits to isengard (to isengard gard) because they thought they had the right ones!  boromir didn’t succeed in preventing their capture but he did in fact keep them alive by making them seem valuable.  furthermore, he actually also saves frodo in this way: because the orcs and uruk-hai think they have what they came for, they stop looking and turn back: if they had not, they might have ultimately found and captured frodo or at least raised the alarm that a hobbit with an Important Thing was on the loose, setting others searching.  which is the very heart of tolkien’s worldview - that you do the right thing because it is right, and doing the right thing is never in vain. 

some excellent additions in the tags here @erynalasse & @manta-ray-parade

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Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.

I want to state, for the record, that “all the avengers would live together in the tower” wasn’t collective headcanon, it was canon. The very last scene of Avengers (2012), the one they left us on, is Tony redesigning the tower, designing a living area for each Avenger. That was, canonically, what was supposed to happen, in canon, and they just changed their minds and decided to… not. For whatever goldarn reason.

This is HUGE.

dunk and baelor get together, and dunk sneaks into baelor's chambers to sleep every night, but one night baelor wakes up and dunk is gone. and he's trying to figure out why dunk would just leave in the middle of the night, but then he hears snoring, and looks over the edge of the bed and dunk is sleeping on the floor. and baelor wakes him up and is like what are you doing down there, and dunk tells him that since he's spent so long sleeping rough, under trees and in the hedges and whatnot, sometimes the bed is too soft and he can't get comfortable but he doesn't want to leave Baelor so he just sleeps on the ground next to the bed and then sneaks back into bed before Baelor wakes up, and it actually happens fairly frequently this is just the first time he got caught

> turns on my computer

there are historical records of black knights/nobles/people of influence in medieval britain and germany

“It's been a long time coming, but after a decade of eye wateringly puritanical pearl clutching and thought crime and cloyingly well meaning, patronising lectures about identity. A society where opinions are polιced, where unsavory jokes become arrestable offences. The left washed their hands of free speech, gladly handing it to the right, who are now using it as a stick to beat us with. 

This may be the best Pride merch I've seen from a major corporation.

I think Levi's donates to Outreach International every year too, as well as sponsoring pride events and other community support. They were offering Same Sex domestic partner benefits to employees in the 90s, and have been very public about their support for pro-lgbt legislation all through the 2000s.