The Lights Are So Bright

There is something sooo deeply American going on with Seattle Children’s Hospital that I think would brick the minds of everyone outside of the United States.

The CHILDRENS hospital has to restrict helipad landings because of noise complaints from the wealthy home owners living next to it. Only the most urgent patients can land directly at the hospital. While the other kids have to land a mile away and are taken to the hospital via ambulance. Which is an unnecessary risk to the child’s life and also makes the families pay for the helicopter AND ambulance.

if you put the new harry potter show on my dash in any way it's gonna be an automatic unfollow from me, guys. like. it's 2026. come the fuck on

um. yeah. trans people suffering because of where jk rowling is actively putting her money. get your terf bullshit off my post

seeing everyone speaking up at the grammys last night has just made me even more disappointed in taylor lol

Every time Madison Beer releases a new project, I give her another chance to see if this is the time she finally hooks me, and every single time I end up being met with if Billie Eilish had less creative direction/vision and more generic songwriting

Fandoms are genuinely so fragile and infantilizing because why did I just see a sad edit of Madison Beer with the audio being someone giving her light constructive criticism about her needing to create her own sound, literally what I said, and everyone is acting like she called her an untalented loser. This is why music journalists can’t do their jobs anymore and coddle every artists out of self protection. Your fav can do wrong! And that shouldn’t have an effect on you!

Yep, Tolkien's linguistic puns and translation jokes are legendary. Although it's not accurate to say the in-universe origin of the books is that an elf told the stories to Tolkien. Rather, Tolkien is translating them from a volume he found, written in Westron, called the Red Book of Westmarch. This contains Bilbo's book (The Hobbit), Frodo and Sam's additions to it, (LoTR), as well as Bilbo's translations of Elvish histories he encountered during his time in Rivendell (The Silmarillion). These were all in one volume and Tolkien himself made the editorial decision to publish them all separately. Even more fascinating, the Red Book is not even the original writings, which of course would have been lost by now to time and disintegration. It's actually a copy of the original, or probably a copy of a copy, multiple times removed. And it wasn't copied from the original, either, but from a copy that made it to Gondor where it was annotated and corrected. There's probably even more to its history that I'm forgetting, but yeah, even this kind of metatextual provenance was something Tolkien thought a lot about that very few writers even consider anymore. Which, of course, they're not obligated to; but the fact that Tolkien was even interested in that kind of thing just shows how above and beyond he went

Professors will do literally anything other than grade your exams (valid)

It’s kinda crazy how you can be listening to a few songs from ttpd and be like “maybe i misjudged this album” but then there’s that string of songs that’s like “ugh my boyfriend’s depression is so annoying like get better already” “i love my racist boyfriend and hate that my fans are anti-racist” “let me make fun of drug addiction for a second” and then a charlie puth jumpscare and you go oop nevermind.

im getting really fucking sick of all this “it gets better!” bullshit. im going to have depression for the rest of my life. it’s not going to “””get better””” fuck you

i have really great news guys, despite it all