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at the function. straight up 'checking it'. and by it. lets just say. my tumblr

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Someone at an old job asked why I wanted to write up the meeting minutes for our team and I said 'i wanna control the narrative' and they were like 'what' and I pointed out that no one was gonna remember what we said in six months and so my interpretation of the meeting would dictate the assumed reality of what happened

"none of you ever send corrections when I offer the draft so y'all have consented to my version"

"we don't read that shit"

"you must trust me implicitly to create our shared reality that's so sweet"

That's how several coworkers decided I was a supervillain and how I learned several coworkers didn't understand record keeping as like a CONCEPT

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please do me a favor and look up "dovekie" on your nearest image searching tool at your earliest convenience. for me. thankyou.

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“Gandalf’s death was not in vain. Nor would he have you give up hope.”

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one of the most boring lessons I’ve learned is that when a task feels overwhelming, you just have to start doing it. Even if you’re not sure how to do 90% of it, look for one small component that seems close and start there. Sometimes it’s reading one article on the topic, or searching one related term, or literally just googling how to do the task. Do anything other than thinking about it. The process of working on a thing inherently makes it less scary.

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im watching a little doc on youtube about an 11th century castle, and theres a bit where they are talking to a group of older women who are working on a large hand embroidered tapestry commemorating its nearly 1000 years of history & into the modern era.. and off on the border they show a bit where the women have stitched themselves working on it into the piece itself, and it made me kinda emotional

how amazing to have a visual depiction of the women who spent literal years painstakingly stitching such a wonderful piece of art that historically would have gone uncredited

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oh right, literature does actually have some power to ennoble the human spirit and enable human goodness. can't believe I keep forgetting this

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So a while back i stumbled on a quote from an interview with Tolkien where i thought he said 'Gollum grew on me' or something like that in the intervew in response to a question about who was his favorite, but I didn't get an exact quote and I thought it might not be real. well I finally found it again and I am happy to report, fellow purveyors of minutiae on the Internet, that I had the quote completely wrong. Behold:

The correct quote is:

I liked him better than all the other characters

There is a Tolkien character tier list and it goes:

S tier: Gollum.

Under that: everyone else, whateverr I feel like I bet on a horse with four broken legs and won.

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i saw a post earlier today and now i can’t find it but someone was like the only reason i get through studying is by saying “let’s go steal a grade” where they just imagine they’re doing research for a leverage con and they have to know all the information to pull it off successfully. I’m at my internship rn and i found the original score for the og show and redemption and let me tell you i have never been more productive

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

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Rohirrim on Pelennor Fields. (Eowyn and Merry) 2025

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Baby Morse thinks, part of a series.

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Nothing more embarrassing than accidentally using a big word wrong because now I'm simultaneously both stupid and pretentious, the worst combination of all time

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“pillows expire after a year” “you need new shoes every 6 months” no thanks. even if that’s true it’s stupid i think i can sleep on a slightly deflated pillow

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"Once more he climbed on the earth pile. Then he stopped. Vervain and Thistle, raising their heads to peer past him from behind, saw why. Thlayli had made his way up the run and was crouching immediately below. Blood had matted the great thatch of fur on his head, and one ear, half severed, hung down beside his face. His breathing was slow and heavy.

"'You'll find it much harder to push me back from here, General,' he said.

"With a sort of weary, dull surprise, Woundwort realized that he was afraid. He did not want to attack Thlayli again. He knew, with flinching certainty, that he was not up to it. Who could do it? No, they would have to get in by some other way and everyone would know why.

"'Thlayli,' he said, 'we've unblocked a run out here. I can bring in enough rabbits to pull down this wall in four places. Why don't you come out?'

"Thlayli's reply, when it came, was low and gasping, but perfectly clear.

"'My Chief Rabbit has told me to defend this run and until he says otherwise I shall stay here.'

"'His Chief Rabbit?' said Vervain, staring.

"It had never occurred to Woundwort or any of his officers that Thlayli was not the Chief Rabbit of his warren. Yet what he said carried immediate conviction. He was speaking the truth. And if he was not the Chief Rabbit, then somewhere close by there must be another, stronger rabbit who was. A stronger rabbit than Thlayli. Where was he? What was he doing at this moment?"

— Watership Down, by Richard Adams