#NO ADMITTANCE EXCEPT ON PARTY BUSINESS

[rings-of-power-realm]

#the rings of power #the rings of power cast #maxim baldry #robert aramayo #owain arthur #ismael cruz cordova #megan richards #cynthia addai robinson #charles edwards #basically everyone #I MISS THEM #WE ARE GETTING THEM BACK THIS YEAR #PARTY AT MY PLACE #NO ADMITTANCE EXCEPT ON PARTY BUSINESS

[pineisnotanapple]

#hobbiton #new zealand #lord of the rings #LOTR #Hobbit houses #I wish i lived there #im practically a hobbit #frodo #bilbo baggins #bilbo #gandalf #no admittance except on party business

[alicebeckstrom]

“A notice appeared on the gate at Bag End: NO ADMITTANCE EXCEPT ON PARTY BUSINESS.” ~ The Fellowship of the Ring, A Long-expected Party (Art: “No Admittance Except on Party Business” by 8TwilightAngel8 on DeviantArt) 

#FOTR quote #A Long Expected Party #no admittance except on party business

[pastafossa]

"No, thank you! We don't want any more visssssitors, well-wishersssss, or dissssstant relations!"

"And what about loving mothers to precious noodles very old friends?" "Gandalf?"

#pepperoni says no admittance except on party business #tw: snake #snakes #snake #pepperoni pizza snake #i swear to god that hobbit house hide was the best snake purchase ever

[plaguebind]

ambrose is in their self care era, ok ! stop coming to them about ' the second coming ' and ' god's divine hand of judgement ', go away !

#he just wants to read and garden and drink #and be left alone!!! #he's nailing bilbo's 'no admittance except on party business' sign to the front door of their flat

[scorpius-rising]

What most Tolkien scholars won't tell you is that the real main reason that most of Hobbiton thought that Bilbo and Frodo were strange was because they were actually communists

#No Admittance Except on Party Business? come on now #they denounced Lobelia Sackville Baggins as a class enemy some time ago

[fruitgoat]

Think I might just leave this on my door for all times.

#I don’t do people #for vacation last year I went with #no admittance except in party business (in the proper front) #not gonna fix this typo now

[glitterghost]

When people interrupt my mind hermiting, like how absolutely dare they! Please let me fully check out for a dang minute or two.

#its the only way to deal i tell you #me shutting the door to said mind hermiting like its a hobbit door with a no admittance except on party business sign #lotr #lord of the rings

[drivemysoul]

reclaiming my trauma (i am getting a tattoo just below my bikini line)

#taylor.txt #it was either gonna be 'no admittance except on party business' or 'abandon all hope ye who enter here' #however i have instead settled on a cute little heart i drew #so thats happening in 2 months

[sillylotrpolls]

It is the middle of a Thursday afternoon. You're getting ready for your 111st birthday, and have posted a sign declaring there will be no admittance except on party business. You don't want any more visitors, well-wishers, or distant relations.

Unexpectedly, there is a knock at the door.

#lotr #lord of the rings #poll #polls

[aviolinstruggle]

booty shorts that say ‘no admittance except on party business’

#lotr #lord of the rings #the hobbit #this has probably already been done

[ash-rigby]

booty shorts that say "no admittance except on party business."

#text #spicy #lotr #not exo #there’s NO WAY that nobody has made this joke before but i haven’t seen it so here it is anyway

[alicebeckstrom]

“Even those who had, or pretended to have Party Business were seldom allowed inside. Bilbo was busy: writing invitations, ticking off answers, packing up presents, and making some private preparations of his own. From the time of Gandalf ’s arrival he remained hidden from view.” ~ The Fellowship of the Ring, A Long-expected Party (Art: “In a hole in the ground” by AlessiaPelonzi on DeviantArt) 

#fotr quote #a long expected party #no admittance except on party business

[lokidokeyartichoki]

booty shorts that say “no admittance except on party business” on the ass

#that late night bullshit #listen I will not explain myself #lotr #lord of the rings

[transsexual-homunculus]

nope I'm not here right now no admittance except on party business

[fission-mailure]

Increasingly anxious about a) Wanting the general election to be as soon as possible, and b) Desperately hoping the Tories don’t somehow turn this around and manage to eke out a win.

Because I’m not being hyperbolic when I say I just don’t think the country can survive another five years of the Tories.

47% of adults report having problems paying rent or mortgages. 48% of adults report having to cut down on food, and hospital admittance for malnutrition is at a historical high, while CEOs and shareholders rake in record profits. It’s become a depressingly common story for people to just not be able to pay for basic utilities like electricity or water, because prices are through the roof. Basically every public service is in the midst of rolling strikes because public workers aren’t being paid a living wage. Brexit-induced food shortages mean basically every supermarket has as many bare shelves as filled, and are having to do things like ration how many vegetables people can buy. Sewage is being pumped into rivers at an unprecedented rate. The city centre is littered with closed down shops, and the average lifespan of a business getting off the ground to going bankrupt seems to be about six months. NHS waiting lists are getting longer and longer. A new Tory politician is revealed to have committed a crime basically every week; there is almost never any kind of punishment for it. 

Some of these things are already set to get worse in short order: There’s going to be a huge squeeze on mortgage owners hitting around September-October, for a start, and food shortages are getting consistently worse, not better, as are utilities prices.

That’s the product of thirteen years of Tory rule. Not even three full terms. So when I say “We will not survive another five years of them,” I’m not even remotely kidding or exaggerating. 

And through it all, the Tories aren’t just unable to start ameliorating any of these problems, and aren’t just uninterested (although they are both of those things), they’re also seemingly incapable of even focusing on these problems. They’re in an endless loop of darting between the same three talking points: Refugees arriving on small boats (and god help them, to have braved the very high likelihood of death or injury to escape an imminent threat to their lives, only to find this shithole); being as transphobic as possible, all of the time; and abolishing Inheritance Tax so the rich can get even richer (and public services will have even less money). 

And the really bizarre thing is, they actually seem to fully believe that if they just hammer these three things enough, that it’ll win them an election, despite the fact that the majority of people do not care. Like, one particularly ghoulish thing about the last Tory leadership contest was that a solid half of it was just wild-eyed, foaming-at-the-mouth Tory hopefuls reassuring their party that they’ll be the cruelest to trans people -- yet when Opinium polled the actual public on 28 issues, ranking them by which people placed as most important to them, trans people and trans participation in sport came 26th and 27th. Other polls show that 62% of people want conversion therapy aimed at trans people banned, and 41% of people thought schools should have specific policies for dealing with transphobia. Endlessly shitting on trans people is a vote winner among other Tory MPs, but it’s transparently not a vote winner among the general public. Same with Inheritance Tax: It really only affects the extremely wealthy, which means not only is it not going to be a priority for most people, it’s also going to become much less of a priority as we all get collectively poorer.

So we now have the completely weird, unhinged situation where the politicians in power are, as everything gets worse for everyone except them and their donors, playing politics exclusively for other MPs in their party, who were already insular and have only become moreso with time. Actually making any effort to fix the issues affecting the country is below ‘make sure other wealthy, old, deeply right-wing MPs like me so I can win a leadership contest.’ 

But the situation for regular people across the political spectrum right now is a terminal one, not just for them (although very much for them), but for everyone. If people can’t pay their power bills, can’t pay for food, can’t keep a roof over their heads (and remember, that’s half of the population right now, and that number is rising), can’t get medical care, can’t get their children educated, can’t consistently use public transport, and so on, and on, and on -- then the rapidly approaching end point of that is that society at large crumbles, because you do, in fact, need people to have shelter, food, power, medical care, education, and clean water to maintain a country. Despite what the Tories think, you can’t maintain a country purely on the ultra-rich hoarding ever more wealth, and it’s not going to take long to hit a point where even they find their corporations are failing, because people just can’t fucking pay for anything anymore. If nobody can pay for utilities, then utilities companies aren’t going to be making money anymore. If people can’t pay their mortgages, then the housing industry collapses. If people can’t pay rent, landlords can’t pay their mortgages.

Just ... what an utter fucking mess, tbh. 

#politics