#For certain times

[diamantposting]

do you guys think atlas would buy luna a collar

[amerasdreams]

Rewatching Lord of the Rings after years. In segments this week. And I'm stuck by how resonant it is to the war in Ukraine.

Even mom (we are both home now bc we expected to go on a day trip w my sister but she's sick) said when Merry was talking to the ents. How they think it doesn't affect them bc they're further removed from it. But you're part of this world! - we may be far from the war but it doesn't mean they don't matter! And it may eventually affect you directly if the evil isn't stopped! (Thankfully we are realizing sooner than World War 2, perhaps bc of the memory of it, how this is a clear war of expansion and it will affect more than Ukraine if the destructive empire isn't stopped)

And the women and kids hiding in Helms Deep are so similar to images of people hiding in bomb shelters.

It's not just history (which in part inspired Tolkien to write the books-- history he saw and experienced when it was not history but the present) but happening now. Evil wasn't vanquished forever but crawls back to life in a different form.

And especially Sam's speech. All of it was so relevant to now, I cried thru the whole thing.

[ruushes]

i'm sure there's a canon timeline but dao is a springtime game to me

[paintedcrows]

When asked why they still haven't kicked the bucket after decades: Ford insists he beat Death at chess. Stanley insists he kicked Death's ass in a Denny's parking lot

[aropride]

[let-them-fight]

can we stop doing this trope

[lonepower]

yes i Am paying real money to make you all look at our new dog. we've had her for 3 hours and if anything happened to her I'd kill everyone in this room and then myself. her name is Tater Tot

[frigidfries]

happy birthday deltarune. happy late birthday undertale. here's a comic!

cheers to best friends forever & ever & ever & ever & ev

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[vextech]

i love that i read SO many jayvik fics about the divorce beginning with jayce being horrified at what viktor had done with the hexcore, only for it to turn out that jayce actually did not give a SINGLE fuck, didn't even flinch at the sight of his hand and leg, and was ecstatic when it ended up saving his life. i am absolutely obsessed

[stiffyck]

Good luck during pride month to all the aroaces who are gonna be blasted with "love is love" everywhere

Edit:

This post includes aplatonic people, loveless aros and any other people who fall anywhere on the aro and ace spectrum.

Stop saying "but theres platonic love and familial love-"

[kensatou]

liberté, egalité, fraternité et yaoi

[seshrat]

i've been seeing a lot of californians aghast at the proposition to abolish prisoners being used as slave labour getting voted down and i have no idea how to fix this on a societal scale but after having enough conversations with people you really do start to realise that a massive percentage of the population sees prisoners as subhuman and therefore believes that once someone is in prison for any reason then everything bad that's done to them is simply their just desserts

[dinolich]

Beetlejuice AU in which he and Lydia are forced to make a deal resulting in a cross-Netherworld road trip, torturing each other the entire way

[pangur-and-grim]

Hope you don’t mind unsolicited kitty cat pictures of my new worm-beast! Forcibly reminding myself that randombred cats can look like anything and that this elongated fella I found living at the local zoo is not in fact an oriental-type/lemur hybrid.

I'll be honest, this is the first cat I've seen that could actually be a Balinese cross.

if you'd only shown me the first photo, I would have 100% believed that was a Balinese. the fur and body type are so specific. and then the last photo couldn't be a Balinese (because of the white spotting), but I'd still believe it was an Oriental Longhair.

it's only the second photo that made me go oh......that's not quite right.....that's not how that should look.........

so I'd say the possibilities are:

you found a cat that has coincidental similarities to a Balinese/Oriental (cool!! awesome cat! the breed had to get the traits from somewhere, makes sense!)

you found a badly bred Oriental Longhair with a wonky face (not likely, OLHs are rare and tend to have a more standardized show-type appearance)

you found a Balinese cross (cool!! awesome cat!)

in any case, they are very beautiful and I'm an admirer of their special white stripe.

[idolomantises]

Man is it just me or are a lot of TV shows nowadays are written to have big emotional episodes in scenes with very little build up.