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Behind the scenes of Godzilla (1998)

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Gandalf: Uh well, so apparently you can destroy Sauron by just hacking away at his tower with a big sword in anger- who knew?

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Me: You know how when you were a kid and you’d wish that you’d get sick or injured in a way that would justify why you didn’t live up to your potential?

Everybody, apparently: No?

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I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

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That makes sense to me. I've seen fics in which Finduilas is utterly miserable even among her family or is constantly having to deal with crap from Denethor and I've never quite liked that interpretation (although it certainly provides some interesting drama). I think you're right that she married Denethor with a very practical, political mindset.

My hot take is that despite the political nature of their marriage, I think they both came to love each other in their own ways.

I like to think Finduilas had a strong enough personality to meet Denethor where he was and keep some of his stronger unpleasantness at bay- both because he was less miserable with her around and because she had the ability to influence his decisions. Denethor certainly is very manipulative but I think Finduilas could probably have changed his mind so subtly that he'd walk away convinced it was his own idea all along.

So I think Finduilas was- well not exactly thriving, but doing pretty well all things considered, despite a bitter homesickness and almost elf-like longing for the sea (Minas Tirith is cool and all but the only tree there is fucking dead. she may as well have moved to one of those spaghetti bowl highways in Houston). But when the threat of Mordor started to overwhelm her, things just went downhill really quickly. Suddenly she wasn't mentally strong enough to temper Denethor's worse traits, which made him more unpleasant to be around (coupled with his fear that his wife was dying, because I think she was one of the only people in the country he had any respect for), which made the threat of Mordor seem all the more overwhelming to her, and so things just got worse and worse.

And of course I think you're 100% right about Denethor's "emotions? in this economy?" He definitely wouldn't have a very good bedside manner. Poor Finduilas.

Anyway most of that is just vibes and not based on anything in the books (I forget a lot of the finer details, I need to give them a reread)

I realized I always draw Finduilas sad, so have a little sketch of pre-Denethor Finduilas playing in the sea

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Genuinely so angry I can't live in the places I grew up because they are fundamentally too expensive for me to go home.

I miss San Diego. I miss Monterey. I miss my home so much every time I go back and visit my parents. But living in the place they live, in the place I grew up, is so wildly expensive that it might as well be Narnia. All I want to do is go home, and I simply can't. There is something fundamentally wrong with the world.

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“Thornton, who’s that fine young lady ?”

His face changes so much when he sees her. Awwwww it’s killing me !

North and South, ep 02

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- If they find out you are planning to break the strike.. - I take this risk for myself. You need not join in. I can and will protect myself and anyone that works for me from any kind of violence

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Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water

it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.

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GRRM may write more women than Tolkien, but as a woman I would feel much safer in Tolkien's world, and around the author himself

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Man, why do Tolkien book covers have to go so hard on the awesomely absurd

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Awesome colors!!

Although now I'm curious, in your headcanon did Finduilas become miserable once she married Denethor and left Dol Amroth, or did they have some happy moments early on? Her depression seems like it was a pretty gradual thing, but I also can't imagine spending time with Denethor could be anything but a mental health hazard

I realized I always draw Finduilas sad, so have a little sketch of pre-Denethor Finduilas playing in the sea

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“What have I done?”

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does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

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The Princess Bride (1987) dir. Rob Reiner