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gandalf is smacking the phone out of your hand and cracking the tv screens and raging at you

have you learned nothing from the examples of the lord denethor and saruman the wizard? have you not realised that to look in these glass boxes for knowledge is not always wise, for unless you are of strong will, stronger even than aragorn son of arathorn who wrested the gaze of the orthanc stone from the dark lord, unless you claim that strength of will and more, you cannot see beyond that which the enemy chooses. and he will show you only darkness, and his terrible strength of arms and he will allow you to see naught that is fair and lovely, and it will lead you to despair as it did the steward of gondor. heed the warning of the son of ecthelion and do not let the designs of the enemy into your mind though this glass or through fox news. you do not control them, and thus will they master you. and the darkness will triumph thereby. and what help then can you be up your friends?

nay, find tidings by other means, true tidings and full, for not all is yet dark while we yet stand. for behold! if you lift your head and look upon the morning you will see that all is not yet lost! queers live yet, and migrants, and women, and will not be wiped out while the great alliances between free peoples last!

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Some fantasy reads I picked up from a recent book sale

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no longer engaging with things that disgust me incl: men who I have met in a context which involves any implication of sex or romance, women who find their own fear of nature entertaining, things I personally label as perversions, ****, many but not all slimy things

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poster from a while back

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GOTH OF THE RINGS

"complete" pack! (idk maybe I'll do other characters but the initial plan is done)

It was fun to draw!

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resting

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Hermann Hesse, from Siddhartha

Text ID: might we be on the right path? Might we get closer to enlightenment? Might we get closer to salvation? Or do we perhaps live in a circle-we, who have thought we were escaping the circle?

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Smoke rises from the Mountain of Doom. The hour grows late and Gandalf the Grey rides to Isengard seeking my counsel. For that is why you have come, is it not? My old friend.

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Larry Sultan

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pfeiffer klaasje and weaver ruby…

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Early Spring (2009) by Syd London

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I think what’s so bitterly ironic about juri is that her disbelief is totally false. she desperately believes in miracles and eternity or she wouldn’t carry around shiori’s picture or be a duelist at all. like touga her false pride in “knowing” what she doesn’t really believe actually takes her further from actual knowledge: she might “know” that there is nothing at ohtori for her, but that claim is a defensive coverup for a childish need to believe that there is, precisely because she doesn’t believe there’s anything beyond it. her knowledge that there are no miracles and that the castle isn’t real is like someone buying lottery tickets and telling the cashier they know there’s no statistical way they could ever win money. if you “know” that you will never win, it gives you an excuse to never learn that you’ll never win.

What drives me crazy is that Juri is right. "Miracles are not real. Eternity is not real. That castle is not real." She gets it from the beginning. She sees through the comphet, the gender roles, the system, and it makes her so powerful. She rightfully hands Utena's ass to her in both their duels, and is the older, more experienced lesbian who challenges Utena's comphet.

By every standard, Juri has seen through the world, and it's astounding that she doesn't escape by the end. Not only that, but Nanami, who is absent in the follow up movie, is the next to escape instead of Juri. A series of women are escaping the world one by one, but Juri lingers.

It adds another layer of tragedy to her character because, in the end, Juri herself is the one choosing to stay despite knowing there is nothing for her there. Juri denies both the miracle that her feelings can be known and the miracle promised to her by conforming to cishet standards. Although Juri firmly refuses to buy into the system she finds herself in, she also doesn't believe that there is anything beyond it.

Better to linger in this space where her feelings aren't known. Better to never open the door and see what's beyond. Better to refuse revolution.

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New utena amv

Link : x

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thinking about getting a real honest to god mullet and writing a stageplay

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hey I don't think I've posted them together before

and this technically doesn't belong but it's important

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Taro Okamoto underwent a rite of initiation to the secret society of Acephale in 1937, also with a pact of blood, and probably preceded by an "oath of silence” on the balcony of the building where Bataille lived at 76 bis rue de Rennes.