#I don't wish to dead name or use incorrect pronouns for a wonderful comedian that has discussed being genderfluid

[aurorasleepsin]

Love this post.

It starts off with a very reasonable argument for being scruffy after being alone hiking- Good job Op.

Then there is a drawing to illustrate the excellent point. Even better way to literally illustrate your very good argument.

But

There is a raccoon on his head.

And you ask yourself, is that a raccoon skin cap like Davy Crockett and children in 1950s America wore. You hope not, but that is probably the most reasonable explanation.

But you are not alone.

The raccoon is too good not to mention. Too good not to have a backstory. Too good not to have a story.

Until it is a full fledged part of the friggin trilogy of the LoTR movies.

He is the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, but without the plot to murder the prince.

He is a character of Shakespeare stolen from Ovid to now grace our dashboard as the Raccoon we needed and deserved in LoTR. He is of the people. He is folkore within beloved literature. He is

I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

*electric guitar riff*

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like