Less wise and more dangerous

In Morgoth’s Ring it says she takes the form of a spider so she can weave “webs of strangling gloom” to catch light.

We actually get similar language with Glaurung who is repeatedly described as a spirit in the form of a great, wingless dragon. But though this does raise fascinating questions about Glaurung’s nature and the precise mechanisms through which he was created, we do at least know he was created in Angband by Morgoth

With Ungoliant, there is so such detail. Her first mention in The Silmarillion speaks of her through heresay, what is believed of her without offering a definitive answer. It was said that she “descended from the darkness that lies about Arda” and while Melkor sought her service early, her lack of allegiance to him began long before the darkening. Indeed there are similarities in the way Ungoliant’s “unlight” and the Shadow Morgoth casts are described

Ungoliant’s horror comes primarily from her relationship to light and her hunger. The Unlight she creates is not just darkness, it is thick with a paralysing, venomous despair

It’s worth noting that this phrasing, that the Eldar knew not where she came from, is repeated in every draft of the darkening as well as the official Silmarillion. And of course this unknowing only adds to the horror she inspires

Anyways just something I’m thinking about; I really love entities like Ungoliant and the Watcher in the Water, and what their existence means about the larger legendarium

I imagine the letter went something like,

support women who shave their legs and wear makeup every day

let's hear it for masculine men

reminder that two people of the same gender can have a close platonic relationship!! not everything is gay!!

skinny shaming is hurtful too guys

does anyone else think [ironic kink du jour] is strange and freaky and gross?

Birdie Sam (ShowMe_YourMask) has a comprehensive list of actionable items you can do and things you can read to educate yourself on indigenous issues.

Sisyphus is exhausted. Day after day, he’s tasked with rolling an enormous boulder up the mountainside in his underworld neighborhood, just to find it right back where it started the next morning. He’s started tuning things out, which works, but it also causes him to miss out on the good while he ignores the bad.

But things change when the boulder speaks up, revealing himself to be a handsome living stone named Blimm. As attraction sizzles between Sisyphus and Blimm, Sisyphus must confront the reality of his situation, and find happiness in the chaos.

Now, the two of them are locked in a hardcore, erotic encounter… pounding happily.

This erotic tale is 4,100 words of sizzling human on gay sentient boulder action, including anal, blowjobs, rough sex, and living rock love.

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to the young couple in this photo, who met at a protest the day before—may your love last a lifetime… and another one, in the hopes that you will teach your children the way of justice. From LA to Palestine.

words and photo by ursula vari, taken on the 3rd day of the LA anti-ICE protests

Scientists in weather and climate are live streaming for 100 hours to make their case to the American public.

They are live streaming, but engagement is necessary for it to work. SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE, RECORD THE STREAM, POST CLIPS OF IT THAT ARE FUNNY, if you can tune in, PLEASE DO!

This is something that has to be heard by as many people as possible. Put it on in the background! See if you can get other people to watch it! Do whatever you can do support those who are trying to be supported! Anything and everything helps!

TUNE IN HERE

i’ve seen hardly anybody on tumblr talking about this. say her fucking name. she was 30 years old. she was a nurse and is survived by a 7 year old son.

and yes, of course her family is responsible for the cost of keeping her on life support for three months and counting. her mother set up a g/f/ndme to help with the bills. please consider giving if you’re in a position to, they’ve barely raised $3600 at this point.

The ongoing usage of these photos in the media is so manipulative because they're trying to imply that Adriana was much further along in her pregnancy than she actually was, which downplays the sheer ghoulishness and senselessness of forcing a braindead woman's body to gestate a fetus for months on end.

Please help her family.

Adriana was mistreated and dismissed by medical professionals which ultimately led to her brain death, due to multiple blood clots. Because she was 9 weeks pregnant at the time and living in the state of Georgia, her family has been forced to keep her on life support, essentially becoming an incubator for her unborn child which her body must carry to term.

I'm disgusted with how she was treated when she was ill, despite her being a nurse. I'm heartbroken for her first child, her boyfriend, and her parents who were given no choice in keeping her body alive to sustain the pregnancy. Her family is uncertain about the health of the baby, whether he will live, whether he will be born with disabilities that will require many resources to provide him a good quality of life.

Our country was built by exploiting and denigrating black women's bodies. It's disturbing... ethically, spiritually, to think about Adriana within the historical context of medical experimentation on black women.

Again, please help her family prepare for whatever comes next. Her children need support and it's currently unclear (to me) whether her family will be responsible for the medical bills associated with life support and delivery of her child.