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you guys are so annoying. why do i have to see discourse every year that's like "was tolkien really a woke king or was he your conservative uncle?" the guy was a devout catholic and a genteel misogynist who maintained lifelong friendships with queer people and women, and this isn't even paradoxical because that was part of the upper-class oxford culture he was immersed in. tolkien told the nazis to fuck off (and in doing so demonstrated a real understanding of what racism is and why it's harmful, beyond simply "these guys are bad news because they're who my country is at war with right now") but his inner life was marked by internalized racism that is deeply and inextricably woven into the art that he made. he foolishly described himself as an anarcho-monarchist, and it's kind of crazy to see people on this website passionately arguing that he likely never meaningfully engaged with anarchist theory, because...yeah, no shit, of course he didn't. tolkien didn't have to engage with most sociopolitical theory because as an upper-class englishman of his position, he was never affected by any of the issues that this theory is concerned with. what is plainly obvious from reading both his fiction and letters is that tolkien's ideal political system was that the divinely ordained god-king would rise up and rule in perfect justice and humility; he didn't want a government, he wanted a king arthur, even though (obviously) he was aware that outcome was impossible. why is it so hard for people to accept that he was just some guy! his letters aren't a code you have to crack. no amount of arguing or tumblr-level analysis is going to one day reveal a rhetorically airtight internally consistent worldview spanning jrrt's fiction, academic work, and personal writings, thereby "solving" the question of whether he was a woke king or your conservative uncle. his ideology was extremely inconsistent because, at the end of the day, he was just some guy.

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Your gender is now the first randomized wikipedia article you get. No rerolls.

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An early Halloween cartoon for Guardian Books

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You know what. Fuck you.

*unhallows your ween*

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Requests for @hotarutheconscience @yelly-ink and @to-end-all-wars !!

Heres Theresa, Ian and Marjorie in all their swagness :)

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Able bodied people four fucking years ago for some fucking reason after seeing mud settled on the bottom of a canal.

Oh yes there are no pole boaters disturbing an Adriatic Lagoon, let me become a eugenicist.

Kill.

Yourself.

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First 6 days of my A to Z of taskmaster

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dude pass me the goint (gay joint)

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Redditors when they remember the Clones are Maori.

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Filipino Isekai

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I know people love "Waffle House Index" jokes, but please remember that Waffle House workers have talked about the company's blatant disregard for their safety. Waffle House SHOULD be closed when a storm is coming, just like everything else non-essential. Waffle House refusing to close until the last minute is a genuine labor rights issue.

This article from last year talks a little about the ways Waffle House workers have tried to organize to protect themselves from the company. Waffle House being open in a dangerous storm means that the workers can't evacuate or prioritize their own safety. And that's really, really fucked.

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The book of Czech folk riddles I was working on in August is almost finished now, fufu 🍄🧅 The name's gonna be "Co to?"

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Its only ever the 3rd movie with these people for some reason.

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how much money do i need to get a set of armor like chappel roan was wearing

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we ate his ass

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Does anyone have the original of this?

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potion delivery!