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I'm like if a girl had problems only God could fix. Great news btw.

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Reading The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis (and loving it so far), when--

"But the nature-lovers whom I have in mind are not very much concerned with individual beautiful objects of that sort. The man who is distracts them. An enthusiastic botanist is for them a dreadful companion on a ramble. He is always stopping to draw their attention to particulars."

Is this from personal experience. Is. Is he talking about Tolkien.

#he's talking about tolkien #cs lewis #jrr tolkien

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The radical distinction between all art (including drama) that offers a visible presentation and true literature is that it imposes one visible form. Literature works from mind to mind and is thus more progenitive. It is at once more universal and more poignantly particular. If it speaks of bread or wine or stone or tree, it appeals to the whole of these things, to their ideas; yet each hearer will give to them a peculiar personal embodiment in his imagination. Should the story say ‘he ate bread’, the dramatic producer or painter can only show ‘a piece of bread’ according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own. If a story says ‘he climbed a hill and saw a river in the valley below’, the illustrator may catch, or nearly catch, his own vision of such a scene; but every hearer of the words will have his own picture, and it will be made out of all the hills and rivers and dales he has ever seen, but specially out of The Hill, The River, The Valley which were for him the first embodiment of the word.

JRR Tolkien

This is something Tolkien wrote in the notes from On Fairy-Stories explaining his view of why fantasy stories are better left to books instead of plays and movies. I think it might be why he was so reticent about letting LOTR be made into a movie.

But, I think it captures one of the great joys of reading and imagination. I love movies and TV shows, but there is a unique magic found in reading a book, and I think this captures part of that magic.

#jrr tolkien

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The Big Three DC Superheroes are generally represented to be Wonder Woman, Superman, and Batman, whom, evaluating their core functions within their own stories, could be said to represent faith, hope, and charity respectively in that order in this essay I will—

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okay but “my beloved ghost and me, sitting in a tree, d-y-i-n-g” becomes even more devastating when you consider what comes right after the portion of the children’s nursery rhyme taylor modified: “first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage”

#the way she is so publicly lamenting being unmarried and childless #feels like a Cultural Moment

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People on this website will be like "oh I love this take on Christianity it's so spicy it would piss off all the Christians" and then it's literally an interpretation like 90% of us take for granted.

#yeah i don't know if we've just run out of heresies #or if this age is just incapable of coming up with new ideas #but every hot take on christianity #is either a mainstream christian doctrine #or a heresy that was condemned in the 4th century

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#psych

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You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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─ Detective Comics #1084 (2024)

#batfleck #dceu #same bat tag same bat time #polysyllabic mos sequel

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Our Lady of Vailankanni

Our Lady of Vailankanni is a celebrated Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary believed to have appeared in Velankanni Town, Tamil Nadu, India.[1] According to traditional beliefs, the Marian apparition is said to have occurred to a young boy delivering milk to the neighborhood when the Virgin Mary, carrying the child Jesus, is said to have appeared.

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every year after you turn 17 you get further away from being the age of the dancing queen and that’s my least favorite thing about growing up

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St. Denis Carrying His Own Head

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thinking about that one feminist I read who said we have to admit to ourselves that the perfect hookup who magically knows how to touch us is nothing more than a myth, because it is just not possible to be “good at” sex in a technical skill kind of way, which applies equally to everyone we sleep with. we all know, when we’re being honest with ourselves, that the only good sex we have ever had was in long term relationships with people who know us and love us. and so inasmuch as that is true, the sexual revolution has been a pointless failure. it is not helping women have better more fulfilling sex lives. it is just helping them have more worse sex.

and this is the horrible tragedy of lines like “struggled through the night with someone new”, “you never measured up in any measure of a man”, and “it wasn’t sexy once it wasn’t forbidden”. of course it wasn’t sexy, of course he didn’t measure up, of course it was a struggle. there’s no familiarity there. what a fucking nightmare.

#intimacy requires commitment! #the tag of the tob

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Baby is flexing on me by being able to eat peanut butter.

#mommy does things

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the lotr trilogy are the best movies on earth but one thing i’ll never forgive them is the complete lack of aragorn and éomer friendship. i know i already made a post abt it but i honestly cannot believe these two talked One time in the movies while in the books they became literal besties. what do you mean they promised they’ll fight together, draw swords together, upon literally their first meeting, then repeated the same promise later again and again. what do you mean “Since the day when you rose before me out of the green grass of the downs I have loved you, and that love shall not fail.” what do you mean “And wherever King Elessar went with war King Éomer went with him; and beyond the Sea of Rhûn and on the far fields of the South the thunder of the cavalry of the Mark was heard, and the White Horse upon Green flew in many winds until Éomer grew old.” LIKE HELLO?????

#lord of the rings

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another thing i want to talk about more when i have more of a brain is the way Taylor talks about insanity and specifically crazy/mad women -- who are not actually insane -- or at least not an actual commentary on mental illness or appropriation of such -- but having extremely appropriate reactions to the way men treat them