#It's just Enhancing My Experience

[glass-coffin-will-graham]

Love Lockdown (Patrick Stump cover I can only find on YT)... save me Love Lockdown (Patrick Stump cover I can only find on YT)...

[uncanny-tranny]

Definitely don't knock your device's accessibility options. I was looking through my phone's accessibility settings last night, and wow, it feels like technology has really advanced since I first got a smartphone.

I've even found a setting that raises certain sounds I apparently have trouble hearing, and it feels like I'm experiencing the music I love with a completely different perspective. It's honestly wild because my first smartphone had like... mono audio, and that was as close as you could get to accessibility

[quietwingsinthesky]

sometimes interpreting media through a shipping lens enhances it, on occasion even beyond the author’s original intent, but sometimes, you do have to accept that your ship was not in the heads of anyone making the source material and trying to force it to fit into evidence of your ship will severely hinder your ability to discuss the actual text.

[tanoraqui]

(AO3)

There are no books banned from the Great Library of Tirion. There are, however, books which are generally agreed to be dangerous to read. There is a section for them, officially called “Unadvised” and informally called “Cursed Knowledge”, “Shelves of Spiders”, and “the Things The Valar Don’t Want You To Know section.”

There are no spiders in it, Dark or natural; the library staff are careful of that. There are many tomes, scrolls, and other writings which are literally cursed.

There is a slim, perfectly natural volume bound in pale grey leather like any other publication from the Metaphysical Studies department of Tirion University. It is notable only in its contents, described by its title:

The Craft of Necromancy

A study of the manipulation of fëa in life, death, the terrible neither and the tormenting both.

A note from the single author on the fourth page, after the title page and publication information, reads,

On sources and citations in this volume:

This is, I must confess, an unusual study. For one thing, while I wrote it for classic philosophical principle, that knowledge closely held ought be shared instead, I also wrote it for the relief of that sharing, as advised by acquaintances wise and well-versed in healing. To my loving advisors: I was perfectly fine before, but I do feel even better now. I’m glad you’re satisfied.

I do not believe this affects the rigor of the discussion herein. I only share it because context is always part of knowledge that ought be shared, to maximize understanding.

More relevant to the question of academic rigor is: where possible, I have included standard citations of other works on the topic, academic, biographical, and other. However, most of my knowledge on this topic was gained firsthand, either through personal experience, tutelage, or both (demonstrations upon my person, patiently explained before, during and after), and I can provide no verification save my own memory and the reputation of my primary tutor.

My memory has been confirmed to be clear by nurses of the Gardens of Lórien. My tutor has been known by many names, among them, Gorthaur, Lieutenant of Angband and Lord (and creator) of Werewolves; the Necromancer of Dol Guldur; the Lidless Eye; and Sauron the Deceiver.

Despite the last, I have perfect confidence that he was not lying to me anymore by the end. He enjoyed showing off too much for that.

With that in mind, I hope you will forgive my academic negligence in referring to him henceforth only as “a source.” It is a matter of not humoring his ego, even after his dissolution.

All that said, I have endeavored throughout this study to clearly distinguish not only between fact and theory, but between facts which I can verify through personal experience (eg, the trapping of a fëa within its hröa past the reasonable point of death), facts which were expounded upon to me at length but which I cannot confirm beyond my certainty of the source’s genuinity in his intentions to taunt and/or tempt me (eg, the warping of a fëa to suit a hroä other than that its natural own), and facts which were told to me, or to others of my association, in contexts of deception but which were later re-examined for truth (eg, on the binding of one fëa [or ëala] to another). As with any work, readers are encouraged to take the knowledge enclosed herein and make their own interpretations—though I do NOT advise practical experimentation with these matters.

This study should be taken as my final word on the matters therein. While I usually applaud curiosity and thoroughness in investigation, do not seek me out with questions.

Additionally: in light of the sober and sometimes disturbing contents of this study, I have been advised by my editor to reassure the reader (somewhat redundantly, I would argue) that I did, in fact, escape the captivity of my primary source, and I am thoroughly and happily recovered from the various torments, betrayals, etc. inflicted upon my person. My source (and tutor, creative collaborator, friend…) is confirmed to be, at the time of this publication, reduced to a scrap of a shadow soon to fade utterly from the world that is, thanks in large parts to the efforts of others. For accounts of those heroes, I recommend “The War of the Ring: A Hobbit’s Very Extended Journey There and Back Again”, B. Baggins, F. Baggins; “Nine-Fingered Frodo and the Ring of Doom”, trans. B. Baggins; and “Garden Plants of the Western Shire”, S. Gamgee.

I recommend the last particular for aspiring gardeners. My floral and herbal window-boxes are all flourishing with the advice of Mr. Gamgee.

Yours in scholarship,

Celebrimbor Curufinwë

The volume is about 100 pages, mostly text with a handful of illustrative drawings scattered among the chapters. In the space in the back pages reserved for commentary from early readers, there is only one comment:

Concerningly accurate throughout.

– Aulë

[mad-hunts]

so, i'm sorry in advance for the cursed images again, y'all. BUT i was thinking about it, and honestly... this is the most accurate description that i could give y'all as to what barton is like around people who he's in love with versus almost everyone else (besides those in his family and his friends + POSSIBLY others... though, even then, he might just act this way towards them 💀)

barton around his love interests:

barton around almost everyone else (at least about 50% of the time):

[warrenwaskilledbyadeer]

As a long-time Dracula fan my favorite thing the tumblr Dracula Daily experience has given me is calling Jonathan "our good friend Jonathan Harker"

[ranger-kellyn]

good news: figured out the general direction of the yangvik week fic i wanna write!

bad news: brain has switched gears and decided that if i don't write suki having a moment laying next to sokka the first night at the air temple after getting away from the boiling rock i'll mcfucking DIE

[goldkirk]

I have the Lord of the Rings extended edition and I’m going to walk on the treadmill for 2.5 hours straight while watching it today to see if I have enough endurance now to do 20,000 steps a day

[raspberrybluejeans]

i use these nose strip things sometimes that basically stick to the top/outside of your nose and lift the skin so its easier to breathe. and it looks so bad it is not flattering. and it also mildly irritates my skin. but my god. it makes it so easy to breathe. its like it takes no effort at all to breathe through my nose. its incredible

[cinnamonanddean]

Once again I am GUTTED that we're getting Tess doing something sexy in the mansion that we were robbed of seeing Lex do. Wildly disrespectful of them to deprive us of Lex in a candlelit bubble bath drinking champagne.

[unopenablebox]

literally why do i ever buy a burger. We Have Burgers At Home. They Are Nicer

[bugeyedfreaks]

Speaking of (HBO)Max per the last post… that reminded me of something I find super annoying about it:

This ALWAYS pops up for me and there is no way for me to swipe it off of the automated list of “For You” options. Would it be difficult for them to just add a “no thanks” button to the options for each title to take it off? I get that they want to give you recommendations, but I guarantee that no one who watches the original PPG is interested in the reboot. 😆

Also, I’m sure there are more cases than mine where the algorithm recommends other stuff people might not want to watch. By giving people an option to tailor their own list they could actually find even MORE new things they might not have found otherwise with this other stuff clogging it!

[montanamp3]

big day for unironic love never dies enjoyers

(day 1/? of not getting covid)

[usertoxicyaoi]

ughhhh if only discovering new music could be classed as a professional hobby 😔.

[lonesomedotmp3]

I've literally never disagreed with a take more than this. it's not pretentious or elitist to say that some films are experienced completely differently in the cinema and that it can enhance and transform that experience massively. alien isn't bad because its use of sound and its absence is ten times more effective in a cinema. shut up

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

ik everyone clowns on the qsmp for having so few women (and rightly so) but ive gotta say im fucking delighted at how well theyre being treated both in server and by the community. ive seen so much jaiden angst and people have been so welcoming to baghera (and making sure to include her in the lore!!) and idk man i just love how purposefully people are kicking ass recently