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J.R.R. Tolkien, from The Return of the King

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i think all quiet on the western front and the lord of the rings are in direct conversation with each other, as in theyre the retelling of the same war with one saying here’s what happened, we all died, and it did not matter at all and another going hush little boy, of course we won, of course your friends came back

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one of my favorite things about Tumblr is that unless you're following a literal brand account or someone who has their first and last name as their username, you can follow someone who's just funny or shares your interests or something for like four years before you find out they're actually a famous artist or have 2 million YouTube subscribers or wrote a book that's considered a keystone reference work in all modern scholarship or whatever. one of many reasons this is the superior social media experience, which is impressive considering how bad it is here

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I want you to be scared of me. I want you to know That I am not my father's daughter. But I could be.

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when i say i wish people started using the reblog button more i don’t mean it in a ‘i want more notes’ kind of way i mean it in a ‘i want to read about your thoughts on this particular thing’ and ‘i want to have conversations in the tags’ and ‘i want this to feel like a community again and not like any of those boring social media platforms where artists are content creators and interactions never goes beyond a like’

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Instructions for the Lovers, Dawn Lundy Martin

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the unbearable heaviness of girlhood / Su Xinyu / Lucie Brock-Broido

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everyone who posts less ironically than me is a brainless fandom stooge and everyone who posts more ironically than me is an insecure meangirl

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0-3 for Qimir/The Stranger

THE ACOLYTE (2024) 1.02 "Revenge/Justice" 1.05 "Night"

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Dayspring, Anthony Oliveira

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honestly i’ve stopped caring if media is good. all that matters is that Me, The Most Important Person, is having a good time.

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Do Not Bring Him Water, Caitlin Scarano

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Charlie Vickers as Halbrand/Sauron in The Rings of Power — 2.01 "Elven Kings Under the Sky"

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reading the Locked Tomb series again because i want to feel something and I noticed something that made me think about the whole Palamedes-Camilla-Dulcie situation. specifically, about their relationships with each other.

in the Unwanted Guest, Palamedes has this conversation with a disembodied voice that we soon learn to be Dulcie. he asks her: “That merely by loving you, I added to your torments?” to this, Dulcie responds that: “yes, and also my agonies.”

as heartbreaking as that is, it contrasts a different conversation between Camilla and Palamedes in Nona the Ninth: “Simply by being in your life, I have added indelibly to its weight?” “Yes.”

i am NOT emotionally stable enough to analyze what this means. but just knowing this — i am hurting. i am in pain. and tamsyn muir definitely knew what she was doing when she wrote this.

sometimes, i think that this series has done me enough harm. but it goes out of its way to show that yes! it can hurt me more!

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Marie Howe, How Some of It Happened

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jewelry store employee: hello sir what kind of engagement ring are you looking for today?

sauron: one that will haunt her with visions of me, her greatest love & worst enemy, but also it should plague her with a deep dread, an all-consuming darkness, a sinister searing hunger. also it should be heart-shaped & less than ten dollars

employee:

sauron:

employee:

sauron:

sauron: FINE I'LL MAKE MY OWN