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CLICK HEAR TO HAVE SOME FUN!

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for what it's worth, we have those kinds of shitty road in Germany too

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The Full Series! Disney Princesses of Pride Power

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At first I thought these two posts belonged together

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I know I've said this before but I have to say it again -- doesn't this beautifully show how "purple prose" was once (supposedly) a mark of quality and superior writing, whereas these days we associate it with bodice-rippers and sappy fanfiction and other genres that are viewed as "typically feminine"?

Percy, calm the fuck down  (x)

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lets diss the all-father he definitely knows shit about raising children (esp. melkor, other valar were more okay) xD

Well, he didn’t have any chance to practice, and let’s be fair if I were the first and only being in existence and then suddenly I had to look after other beings that are… kinda similar to me but with a limited range of abilities? I’d be crap at it, too. The Valar who turned out okay also fail to understand the Eruhíni in their turn, with predictably messy results. I guess it’s all just the beta testing process for Arda Remade! XD

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rb with your favourite queue tag i created for me,

because serotonin lies in the tags

i queue the uwu

queue a batata

queue se bolo cutie

queue ki tum hi ho

queue maara iron man ko?

dil queue yeh mera shor kare

queue ki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi

queue se rhyme hota hai ruh productions

queue na hum tum

queue na bole mose mohan queue

elomenop queue

do re mi fa queue la ti do

queue the hue of the sunset view

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18 Questions Tag Game

I got tagged by @independence1776​ weeks ago but never got around to it. Now I have a bit of a breather, so here goes!

1. Why did you choose your URL? I wanted “uncleftish beholding” but that was already taken in all variants I could think of, and my usual fandom handles felt too short/boring for Tumblr. The description of Ovid as “too fond of his own wit” (nimium amator ingenii sui) came to mind and struck a chord, so I used the feminine form and went with it.

2. Any side blogs? Nope.

3. How long have you been on Tumblr? Since 2017, IIRC. I’m a late adopter.

4. Do you have a queue tag? Yes, “queuerated”. Because the queue is curated. Haha. (See note above on “too fond of her own wit”)

5. What did you originally start this blog for? DW felt pretty much dead because all the fun fandom interaction seemed to have moved here, and though I resisted for a long time because I wasn’t so sure about the reblog format, eventually the desire for instant gratification won out. Another reason was that I was already reading a couple of Tumblr blogs of fandom friends individually and it was beginning to be annoying a) to visit them one by one and b) not to be able to reblog or comment except through asks. So yeah. Fandom interaction.

6. Why did you choose your icon? It’s from a little graphic I made for the SWG’s “Revolution” challenge and turned into an icon later. It says “Day shall come again” in Quenya, and though in canon that daybreak turned out to be... hm... very much delayed, it still sums up my basic attitude.

7. Why did you choose your header? I painted Eärendil and the birds taking on Ancalagon for the SWG’s celebration of the 40th anniversary of the publication of the Silmarillion. I’m kind of proud with how that turned out, flaws and all, so I used it for my header.

8. What’s your post with the most notes? The Eruvision Song Contest shitpost. I regret nothing.

9. How many followers do you have? 431. No idea how that happened.

10. How many blogs do you follow? 151. When I started here I followed pretty much everyone who interacted with my posts, but then I could no longer keep up with my dashboard and cooled it down.

11. Have you ever made a sh*tpost? Several. They tend to be more succesful than my “serious” stuff, too...

12. How often do you use Tumblr every day? More often than I should. The rush of “eee! new content! must check!” is too strong for me. On a work day, it might just be once, but if I have a little more time, I check it all the damn time.

13. Have you ever had a fight with another blog? A fight, not really. Heated discussions, on occasion.

14. How do you feel about “you have to reblog this” posts? Not to revert to my native German, but ‘n Scheiß muss ich. That is to say, I ignore them on principle.

15. Opinion on tag games? Fun!

16. Opinion on ask games? Have mostly stopped reblogging them because I rarely get any asks for them anyway, but I like the idea behind them.

17. Which of your mutuals is Tumblr famous? I don’t know if any Tumblr famous people are mutuals with me.

18. Do you have a crush on any of your mutuals? Maybe?

I’m tagging @elennare​, @catilinas, @vefanyar​ and/or anyone who reads this and feels like it!

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“Hilarious that mortifying and other words originated by Billy Shakespeare were accepted into Johnson’s Dictionary”

People who interject shit like "I guess these are all words" "What are you two fucking talking about" in the middle of a perfectly cromulent conversation trying to be funny are like mad annoying. Sometimes people are gonna use words you might not be familiar with and idk who raised y'all but reacting to them by pointing and hooting is not polite.

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In the meantime, what Tolkien looked like while trying to explain the Silmarillion

Story of my life!!

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@youhavereachedtheendofpie​ Truer words were rarely spoken and that’s what makes it so hard not to engage. Not because that person is going to learn but because other people might see their bad takes and believe them

Sometimes you just gotta tell yourself "It is clear this person had not pay the bare minimum of attention to the story and characters they are criticizing and so they don't deserve the bare minimum of my time to engage with their bad faith opinion" and move on. It helps a lot.

Fandom 101.

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It has been brought to my attention that screen readers cannot read these emoji, instead spelling them out like “capital O period lowercase o” or “colon capital P” or some shit, but clearly the solution here is to program screen readers to understand typed out emoticons, not to replace all typed out emoticons by emoji evidently produced by people who don’t actually understand what they’re supposed to convey.

gonna post a controversial take alright are y’all ready??

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actually typing out emoticons like XD and :D and :V never should have gone out of fashion and you can pry them out of my cold dead hands okay I know emojis are fun but THEY DON’T CAPTURE THE EMOTION IN THE SAME WAY

so like

…yeah that was basically it, thanks for reading

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Would suggest the addition of

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#i think it's important to stress that the reason people get mad abt stuff like this isn't necessarily bcos #calling greek  or dante's inferno or whatever 'fanfiction' is an insult #it's just that that they're different things and should be recognised as such #other examples of this include e.g. referring to the Odyssey or Beowulf as 'fantasy' #bcos they involve 'fantastic' elements #when they're in actuality an entirely different type of literature to modern fantasy #or calling the bible 'fiction' bcos there's stuff in it that's generally agreed to be untrue #when again it's just a different type of literature to fiction OR non-fiction #you can't categorise every text by 20th-21st century standards (via @penny-anna)

v important points that should not remain hidden in the tags

if you call greek myths fanfiction i am not going to listen to anything you say

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I was gonna say, Have modern medieval scholars ever tried gardening

apparently modern medieval scholars have no solid idea why there’s so many old paintings of knights fighting snails.  Like that wasn’t just one weird painting there’s hundreds of those.