#white/grey

[bloodraven55]

never forget when saruman literally told gandalf "you've been smoking too much weed bro"

[hedgehogoftime]

Rereading the Lord of the Rings series recently, and it's so fascinating to me how much the series is a denial of the typical juvenile power-fantasy that is associated with the fantasy genre.

Like, the power-fantasy is the temptation the Ring uses against people It tempts Boromir with becoming the "one true king" that could save his people with fantastic power. It tempts Sam with being the savior of Middle Earth and turning the ruin that is Mordor into a great garden. It tempts Gandalf and Galadriel with being the messianic figure of legend who brings salvation to Middle Earth and great glory to herself.

The things the Ring tempts people with are becoming the typical protagonists of fantasy stories that we expect to see. and over and over we see that accepting that role, that fantasy of being the benevolent all-powerful hero, is a bad thing. LotR is about how power, even power wielded with benevolent intent, is corrupting.

And its so fascinating how so much of modern fantasy buys into the very fantasy LotR denies. Most modern fantasy is about being that Heroic power-fantasy. About good amassing power to rival evil. But LotR dares not to. It dares to be honest that there is no world where anyone amasses that power and remains good.

I guess that's one of the reasons its so compelling.

[proteusolm]

I've been seeing a lot of crusty little dog positivity lately and I respect it. More people should get them, they're really the only genre of dog genuinely bred for companionship. But let's be real; they are hideous. I'm so sorry but shih-tzus look like a rug someone left bunched up soaking wet in a corner to grow mildew, but with bulging goopy eyeballs and a brachycephalic wheeze. I don't mean when they're elderly, they look wretched as soon as they leave puppyhood. Great personality, they're good little dogs and all, but it can't be denied that they're ugly as sin.

edit: Chill, "only companion breed" is hyperbole. You don't need to list every companion-bred dog to me. Peace and love.

[p-oisn]

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  °ཐི♡̵̼͓̥͒̾͘ཋྀ°   magic  is  real

 . . .  but  me?  not  so  sure

[luvpngs]

like or reblog if you use/save ~☆

[bathofmercury]

Made these as a response to a post but saved them here because I'm correct

[heartnosekid]

monkeycatluna on ig

[stimiez]

♡ because that's what love is

[ayo-edebiri]

Favorite canon bisexual characters:

Nick Nelson in Heartstopper (2022 - )

Remy "Thirteen" Hadley in House, M.D. (2004-2012)

Rosa Diaz in Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013-2021)

Alex Claremont-Diaz in Red, White and Royal Blue (2023)

Annalise Keating in How To Get Away With Murder (2014-2020)

Callie Torres in Grey's anatomy (2005-)

[s-heon]

✩ ・ 👖 ◦　 ♩

✩ ・ 🦕 ◦　 ♩

[lgbtqtext]

[heavenurl]

　 　๑ ｡  ꒰͜͡ ྀ ͜͡꒱🎼⠀Strawberry⠀Kisses⠀ ͟ ͟͟✧͟ ̩̥͟‧̥͟‧̥͟ ‧̥˚̩̩̥͙·͟𖣁 ͟ ͟

　　　　　　　　　　　♡𒋲ᩧ︎̩͙🫙꫶ུ⃛ ㅤ ⃨͟ ͟  𓈒 ❀ᮬ◌

[cannibalim]

Don't 　Need 　Nobody 　Else 　When　 it　 Feels　 This 　Good... ⬚͒❀ ͟ ͟ ͟ ͟ ♥︎̼ ͏

[tampire]

Drag Race Season 7 Winner Violet Chachki congratulates Grey Matter on his first win in Dragula Season 666 Episode 666

[hacked-wtsdz]

Every time I read or watch Lord of the Rings I can’t help but think about how Tolkien had survived one of the bloodiest, most cruel, most dirtiest and darkest wars in human history, came back and wrote this:

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

And this:

"'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo.

'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'"

And this:

"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."

And this:

“Many that live deserve death and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be so eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the wise cannot see all ends."

And this:

“True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.”

And clearly they were all written partly because he survived the war, because of what he’d seen and done and learned. But at the same time the unwillingness to lose faith, the courage and strength that this man had to believe in these things after going through hell! It makes the nihilists look so cheap, so uninteresting! People who’ve went through concentration camps and wars believe in humanity anyway, isn’t that proof that hope and love exist? And many, many, many of them did not return or returned broken and cruel and traumatised to the point when no faith in others was possible for them, and nobody can blame them. But there were many who refused to lose faith and hope. They have seen some of the worst that life has to offer and came back believing that we shouldn’t be eager to deal out death in judgement and should love only that which the sword defends.

No matter how many people say that humanity is horrible and undeserving of love, and life is dark and worthless, and love doesn’t exist I remember this and have hope anyway. Because there were people who have actually had all reason to believe in the worst and still believed in the good, so the good must be real. The good is real, even despite the evil, and we must trust in it.

[hinamie]

realizing how much i like drawing him a million years too late :<