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is celegorm just jeremy fragrance. discuss

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ran yi you’ll always be beautiful to meeee

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wen xiao…. girl …. how many times are you going to dream of this damn beach and your dead master

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where are yall watching fangs of fortune

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seems like chen duling is permanently typecasted as weak chronically ill woman 😭😭 first poor downtrodden bingchang in tteotm, then asthma representative qiao wanmian in mlc, now weak and feeble wen xiao in fangs of fortune lolll

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truly loving how all-round deeply unserious fangs of fortune is

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We also figured out—the hard way—that the ancients probably cut each layer of linen to the proper shape before gluing them together. For our first linothorax, we glued together 15 layers of linen to form a one centimeter-thick slab, and then tried to cut out the required shape. Large shears were defeated; bolt cutters failed. The only way we were ultimately able to cut the laminated linen slab was with an electric saw equipped with a blade for cutting metal. At least this confirmed our suspicion that linen armor would have been extremely tough. We also found out that linen stiffened with rabbit glue strikes dogs as in irresistibly tasty rabbit-flavored chew toy, and that our Labrador retriever should not be left alone with our research project.

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Practising boob grabs and straddling: Wang Yunkai and Li Le in BTS of Meet You At The Blossom episode 2

Li Le (Huaien): do you want to be on top?"

Wang Yunkai (Xiaobao): "it's because something of yours [dick] bumped into me" Li Le (Huaien): "what did you say? what are you saying?" Wang Yunkai (Xiaobao): "it's like this in the script" Li Le (Huaien): "such obscene words"

translated by @ xiaoqiaoo_

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Fangs Of Fortune (2024) 1.02

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Xiao Shunyao 肖顺尧 3rd Nov 2024 douyin update – 黑～ (literally "black" but also sounds like "Heh") 😎

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Finrod and Maedhros in the halls or post embodiment talking about Sauron.

Not about the torture or the agony they went through, more like gossiping on how much of a peacock he was, strutting around and bragging about how beautiful he is.

If you came across them in the street you’d think they’re talking about one of those overdressed Tirion nobles, but then you hear “I preferred his torture to his speeches because dear Eru those were a whole new level of pain-“

“Heard all of two before being mauled. Definitely preferred the werewolf.”

Celebrimbor sometimes joins these sessions but he’s got the additional years of having known Annatar and it’s therapeutic to talk about how self absorbed he was to people who really understand. Safe to say Maedhros and Finrod sombrely commiserate the kid on dealing with that for centuries.

“How did you two become friends??”

“I think his vanity numbed my brain.”

“That’s fair.”

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Maedhros on Thangorodrim trying to put strain on the manacle because dammit it’s just metal, it can break, it can break, it can all be over he can break it, it will break it will break it will how the fuck is he weaker than a stupid fucking manacle it’s metal it’s just fucking metal—feanor shaped metal like it was clay—and dammit he is feanor’s son—so why won’t it fucking break oh god oh god

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cql's decision to turn zidian from a ring that transforms into a whip to a sexy snake ring-bracelet combo was honestly fucking galaxy brained

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Do you ever remember the hyx leaks of Ranwan with babies and just

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you guys are so annoying. why do i have to see discourse every year that's like "was tolkien really a woke king or was he your conservative uncle?" the guy was a devout catholic and a genteel misogynist who maintained lifelong friendships with queer people and women, and this isn't even paradoxical because that was part of the upper-class oxford culture he was immersed in. tolkien told the nazis to fuck off (and in doing so demonstrated a real understanding of what racism is and why it's harmful, beyond simply "these guys are bad news because they're who my country is at war with right now") but his inner life was marked by internalized racism that is deeply and inextricably woven into the art that he made. he foolishly described himself as an anarcho-monarchist, and it's kind of crazy to see people on this website passionately arguing that he likely never meaningfully engaged with anarchist theory, because...yeah, no shit, of course he didn't. tolkien didn't have to engage with most sociopolitical theory because as an upper-class englishman of his position, he was never affected by any of the issues that this theory is concerned with. what is plainly obvious from reading both his fiction and letters is that tolkien's ideal political system was that the divinely ordained god-king would rise up and rule in perfect justice and humility; he didn't want a government, he wanted a king arthur, even though (obviously) he was aware that outcome was impossible. why is it so hard for people to accept that he was just some guy! his letters aren't a code you have to crack. no amount of arguing or tumblr-level analysis is going to one day reveal a rhetorically airtight internally consistent worldview spanning jrrt's fiction, academic work, and personal writings, thereby "solving" the question of whether he was a woke king or your conservative uncle. his ideology was extremely inconsistent because, at the end of the day, he was just some guy.

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if li xiangyi was famous enough to become a puppet show and teahouse story then he absolutely was a set costume option in brothels. yeah i'll take the high ponytailed ideologue tonight, thanks, and throw in those virginal white robes. also I want him to cry

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If Sauron was hanging about Eregion for about four hundred years, then I'm assuming he didn't spend the whole time cooped up in the smithies, but also had to maintain his Friendly Neighbourhood Emissary of the Valar persona by mingling with the populace, taking part in their social calendar, attending their festivals, feasts, hunts, etc.

As one of the great tales, the Lay of Leithian must be a particularly popular subject for Elvish art, whether in song, poetry, maybe even in theatrical performance, and I find it impossible to believe that Sauron could have avoided hearing or seeing some rendition of it during his time among the Elves. And sure, maybe the bits with Finrod and Gorlim would occasion him a private chuckle, but the rest of it... well, he really doesn't appear to advantage!

Let's just say, if you were in the audience at such a performance - say, oh, the bit where Lúthien and Huan rescue Beren from the Isle of Werewolves - just say you were able to tear your attention from the drama on stage for just a second and happened to look around, you might be somewhat surprised to catch a glimpse of Lord Annatar sitting bolt upright in his seat, wearing a decidedly fixed smile, one hand rubbing unconsciously at his throat...