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[the-heart-of-a-monster]

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[weepycat]

the full email is posted here but this paragraph from rachel corrie's last email to her mother in 2003 before she was killed by an israeli bulldozer is absolutely fucking harrowing over 20 years later.

I look forward to seeing more and more people willing to resist the direction the world is moving in: a direction where our personal experiences are irrelevant, that we are defective, that our communities are not important, that we are powerless, that the future is determined, and that the highest level of humanity is expressed through what we choose to buy at the mall.

[sauronism]

I think what really scary about Melkor in tale of adanel is how aggressive he is when it comes to corrupting what he wants. We read the story from the perspective of Men; and unlike Elves, Men are alone. They're mostly by themselves and they had to figure this shit out on their own ( despite getting a bonus+ to communicate with eru directly. which got me thinking if that has been expanded on in other tolkien works ).

Melkor sees this, and take an opportunity by befriending them. He posture himself as Giver of Gifts. Since it's established in the story that Men are curious and wanted to learn more about the world, Melkor act as their teacher as well. Everything started off okay, until Men communicate with Eru again and that's when his mask slip off.

Melkor gets angry, and call the Men fools. He basically pulled a "it's either eru or me" moment before he walks away. When that didn't work, Melkor bring the darkness directly to them, and scare them off into his own home. He basically put them under hostage and make them bow before him. If you don't do that, you'll get thrown into the fire.

He basically force his influence over you, and if you notice his trick, you either die because of his fury or you serve him because of fear.

[winchester-co]

We’re just trying to have fun :(

[mythicalea]

Some of you please keep your nasty comments away from the main tag and let us have some peace.

I am seriously so freaking tired of this😣

[dyrewrites]

If you're ever curious how it feels to escape a codependent relationship I encourage you to try canceling services with your current internet service provider.

[hat-troll]

So… my work has a tumblr… and I am managing it for the first time. I have not chosen true mischief yet. But I have chosen mischief

[hedwyn-here]

Been thinking a bit about how easy it must be for authors to accidentally write characters that don't align with their own identiy or experiences via a process of osmosis.

There's a lot of discussion around about people headcanoning characters are having particular facets that weren't intended by the author, with some people getting really angry about it. (which is ridiculous becuase it's an inherently harmless thing to do in most cases)

But say for example, a character is written in a way that gives them big Autistic energy, and an autistic reader decides they love that. The author isn't autistic, and they didn't mean for that character to be autistic, but they sure are written that way and you love them and you claim it as representation.

It's entirely feasible that the author has unknowingly been exposed to autistic people, maybe friends or family, who they are drawing from for that particular character. They are intentionally writing an autistic character by being inspired by an autistic person. They just don't realise that's the thing they're intentionally recreating.

I imagine that's a thing that's incredibly common throughout literature both modern and historic. This person I know is quite interesting, I want this one character to reflect them in some respects. Oh what's that? 200 years later people are saying this character has big transmasc energy? I don't know what that means, that's just the vibe my friend James who's very private about his past gives off.

So yeah, I think it is entirely possible for an author to accidentally write a character who is neurodivergent, disabled, queer or any other number of things.

And now I've given you that context, I think Frodo Baggins is canonically a depressed little gay man and Sam Gamgee is blissfully bisexual.

[askradiostatic]

Hey, if we're wanting truth potions, can't somebody just go steal that truth bomb thing from the D.H.O.R.K.S.?

"... Who?"

[ubike-official]

for besties that didnt see my post when it happened, i confessed to the guy and we're discussing it whether its a good idea to date or not bc both of our sordid histories. But either way its very much confirmed we both like each other a lot so yay c: regardless of outcome I'm at peace and I'm glad i told him. He definitely wouldn't have said it first or may have taken forever. not bc he's not into me but bc we've both got deep rooted trauma. But mine was acute and his is chronic. ye

[discluded]

Apo's Wan(der) Day Restaurant lore 👀

The restaurant Apo picked for his Wan(der) Day was specially researched and selected by him. It was very special in that it required a boat to get to... so why did Apo pick it?

An astute Chinese fan noticed Mile had reposted this on his IGS in April. Do the nets look familiar? 😍🥰

Here's her explainer video (in Chinese):

"These types of Thai restaurant islands require boats to get to are plentiful and hardly rare, so why did Apo pick this one? It's because on April 29, Mile reposted this post to his instagram stories. Look at the net bed at the restaurant, doesn't it look like the one in the post? Apo is so thoughtful towards Mile! What a romantic gesture. Love means that everything you like, I'll remember."

MileApo being hopeless romantics, romancing each other: 👨🏻‍🤝‍👨🏽

The rest of us watching them while being extemely single: 🧍🏻‍♀️🧍‍♀️🧍🏼‍♀️

I'm just gonna quote @sinnadreams on this one: "They’re such a couple that my brain has filed them in the category of people I know in relationships even though I don’t actually know them lol"

[tommywambs]

shout out to my two mutuals who still love and cherish greg. my message? stay strong. we can’t let the haters get us down✊🏼

[rleonard9]

they think we don’t want this

[rockoblanco]

sometimes when ppl ask for something that i kno for a fact we have in the store , i tell them that we don’t have it bcs im too sleepy to deal with a customer in the moment lol

[victoriasugdens]

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