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Today we are challenging the Tompocalypse.

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Trump’s attempt to weaponize a centuries-old law for mass removals just hit a major roadblock.

The courts are doing their job—now Democrats in Congress need to step up.

#JusticeWins

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ANTIQUE TABRIZ IRANIAN CARPETS……

(even better than flying ones)

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"it's okay, i can peel back the layers of you until i find the soft and gentle core of you you've had to work so hard to hide"? no. no, it's okay, i know you're hollow; i'm here anyway. you don't have to pretend it isn't masks the whole way down. whatever face you want to wear, i still love you. i don't need you to be good or unflinching or the antonym of violence. if i did, i wouldn't be here. i wouldn't ask that of you.

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People often say LOTR is a story about hope. (I'm reminded of it because someone said it in the notes of my Faramir post.) And that's true, but it's not the whole picture: LOTR is in large part a story about having to go on in the absence of hope.

Frodo has lost hope, as well as the ability to access any positive emotion, by Return. He is already losing it in Towers: he keeps going through duty and determination and of course Sam's constant help.

For most of the story, Sam is fueled by hope, which is why it's such a huge moment when he finally lets go of the hope of surviving and returning home, and focuses on making it to the Mountain. To speed their way and lighten the load, he throws his beloved pots and pans into a pit, accepting that he will never cook, or eat, again.

When Eowyn kills the Witch King, she's beyond hope and seeking for a glorious death in battle. It's possible that in addition to her love and loyalty for Théoden, she's strengthened by her hopelessness, the fear of the Nazgúl cannot touch someone who's already past despair.

Faramir is his father's son, he doesn't have any more hope of Gondor's victory or survival than Denethor does, he says as much to Frodo. What hope have we? It is long since we had any hope. ... We are a failing people, a springless autumn. He knows he's fighting a losing war and it's killing him. When he rejects the ring, he doesn't do it in the hope that his people can survive without it, he has good reason to believe they cannot. He acts correctly in the absence of hope.

Of course LOTR has a (mostly) happy ending, all the unlikely hopes come true, the characters who have lost hope gain what they didn't even hope for, and everyone is rewarded for their bravery and goodness, so on some level the message is that hope was justified. But the book never chastises characters who lost hope, it was completely reasonable of them to do so. Despair pushed Théoden and Denethor into inaction, pushed Saruman into collaboration, but the characters who despaired and held up under the weight of despair are Tolkien's real heroes.

(In an early draft of Return, Frodo and Sam receive honorary titles in Noldorin: Endurance beyond Hope and Hope Unquenchable, respectively. Then he cut it, probably because it was stating the themes of the entire book way too obviously, because this is what Tolkien cared about, really: enduring beyond hope. Without hope.)

Also, people who know more than me about the concept of estel, feel free to @ me.

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Link. Tweets:

a friend just noted all the ostriches in fantasia are boys and i am floored i never noticed. sissy that walk, ladies

only boy ostriches have black and white feathers, gang. it’s an ostrich drag ballet troupe. god bless america

‘when will there be a gay disney prince’ that prima ballerina ostrich has been holding it down since 1940 apparently

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The Democrats who decided they had no spine to stand up to the GOP.

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CHRIS EVANS yesterday at East Side Ink Tattoo in NYC

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Adobe Illustrator go brrrr

don't ask whats the theme not even I know... Idk, maybe the context is : "Im gay for loki so thats that"

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art collab with  buckybuns​!  she drew steve, i drew bucky.

THIS REQUIRES AN EXPLANATION, BUT I DON’T THINK WE HAVE ONE.  (mae requested bucky playing ping pong.  panties were discussed?  and then.)

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Happy Ides of March!!

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Late night crying session because I found these old drawings and what the hell was I on

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내가 리터칭 했지만ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

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Thorcules + Logara