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RYEOWOOK IS GETTING MARRIED!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL

#actually honouring losing that rock-paper-scissors battle on my ugly duckling all those years ago 🤧

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[at Achilles's funeral] Agamemnon: *places his hand on the pyre and sobs* Agamemnon: How could you do this to me? We are so understaffed.

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Some people: The Silmarillion is a work of such literary significance. 

Me: Obviously Feanor would choose charmander, but would Fingolfin go with squirtle or bulbasaur? What does the text tell us?

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God season one of nuwho is so. Your budget is a half-eaten cheese sandwich. Your props department is the rubbish tip behind the BBC studio offices. You may use one (1) cgi, and also photoshop that is exceedingly bad even for 2005. And its one of the best seasons of television ever made

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KYUHYUN x WON JI AN

그렇지 않아' MV | KYUHYUN EP 'Restart'

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ursa minor, or "bear minimum",

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the piped tags discourse is actually so funny. never change silm fandom <3

#quenya ban irl

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oh so you like Homer??? name every simile

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birds really do be kinda freaky anyway you should all go watch the boy and the heron

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‪sometimes I can’t believe there are ppl who don’t wash their rice before cooking it but then I rmr that western medicine was revolutionized by the simple act of washing your hands

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need you all to know rick astley was given his own NYE show on the bbc and the very first song he played after the fireworks stopped was never gonna give you up. the new year is 14 minutes old and the whole of the UK has been rickrolled. this is the tone for 2024

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who else up hurkleing their durkleing

#hurkling-durkling everyday

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Elrond: Let's maybe not swear a binding oath to keep jewelry away from an Ainu at all cost. Let's maybe. Let's maybe just like, pinky promise to do our best. Trust me on this, you don't want to swear any oaths

#tolkien

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wait guys. reblog this and tell me what the last movie you watched was. bonus points if you add a short review <333

#the classic xmas trilogy: lotr

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okay listen UP the only parallel in cinematic history that matters and i mean the ONLY one is when the shot in fellowship of the ring where frodo’s hand reaches into the water to grab sam’s is mirrored by the shot in return of the king where sam reaches over the edge of the volcano to grab frodo’s hand and pull him up like. poetic FUCKING cinema.

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I know that from a modern western context Nie Huaisang's hobbies of collecting fans and pretty things, and painting and doing poetry instead of fighting is read as gender-nonconforming. And while that interpretation is perfectly fine and I do love seeing Huaisang play with gender in AUs, it's still pretty important to understand that in his own cultural context all of his hobbies are considered normal for a young man to have. Painting was one of the four arts of the chinese scholar, and so was calligraphy. These were all acceptable and even expected skills for a man to have.

Huaisang in canon isn't seen as womanly but as childish. He overindulges in his hobbies and refuses to do his job. He's physically frail, can't fight, refuses to try and train so he's also seen as lazy and alltogether not willing to bear the responsibility his station comes with.

And so, if you want to translate that to a contemporary society, he should ideally have interests that, while acceptable for a boy to have, are seen as trivial, as something it's a little cringe to still have a massive interest in as you grow up. And ideally something that carries a stereotype of laziness or physical weakness.

So what i'm saying is that modern AU Huaisang... is a gamer.

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One of my favorite parts of Lord of the Rings is how the history of the environments always echoes what’s happening in the story.

Most sequences in Lotr are like: “the heroes enter a location that is ruined/fading/dead. Then the heroes do something that makes the location’s lost history come to life again, if only for a moment.”

Like the most obvious example of this is Moria. The heroes walk into Balin’s tomb and read the story of what happened there– the dwarves hearing drums in the deep, barricading the door, and being attacked by goblins.

Then immediately after the heroes hear drums in the deep, barricade the door, and have to survive an onslaught of goblins, just as the dwarves did.

The other really obvious example is Mount Doom: Sam tries to get Frodo to let go of the Ring, and Frodo refuses– echoing how Elrond tried to get Isildur to let go of the Ring, and Isildur refused.

But there are more subtle versions of this too-- like I’ve already talked a lot about how much I love this part of Weathertop. Weathertop was once a magnificent old watch-tower that was used by ancient kings, and long ago the ancient kings even used to battle over who owned it. Then the Northern Kingdom fell, and the watchtower fell into ruins and was forgotten.

But then Aragorn (a king in exile) and the Nazgul (who were “great kings of men”) return to Weathertop– and it’s like an echo of the battles that used to happen there.  This watchtower fell into ruin and lost its royal identity, the Nazgul fell into ruin and lost their identities, and Aragorn turned from kingship and chose a life of anonymity– so it’s like!!!!!!!! The kings are as faded as weathertop itself!! It drives me wild

(also: unrelated but I love this shot where Aragorn is a dark silhouette and the Ringwraiths are bright white silhouettes, it’s just nice)

Another example is Amon Hen and the Argonath. This land used to belong to Gondor,– but it’s broken, overgrown, in ruins, and gradually fading away.

And this is the place where Boromir dies– the place that symbolizes his country’s death.

But it’s also the place where film!Aragorn finally decides to accept his responsibliity to Gondor–when he realizes that Gondor/mankind has worth, even if it’s  faded and in ruins and ultimately doomed.

Or there’s Helm’s Deep in the Two Towers, where the history of Helm’s Deep as a fortress that can’t be taken is repeatedly tied to the hero’s efforts to save it. The heroes find courage by reminding themselves of the fortress’s history. (“The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep– one last time!”)

Or the way Frodo making the choice to take the Ring to Mordor, leaving his home behind, ties into the history of Rivendell– to the way elves are preparing to leave their home behind. Or the way the elves’ grief at how Lothlorien is doomed to fade away ties to the heroes’ grief at the death of Gandalf. 

Idk! It’s like every scene! And sometimes the characters themselves are aware they might relive the past– and it it fills them with hope (Helm’s Deep) or dread (Moria, Mount Doom.)  But sometimes it’s subtle, to the point where the characters themselves might not realize it’s happening. And i just think that’s neat

#lotr