#but replace mountain with me

[wrennieandthejets]

just let me push my south asian thorin fancast on y’all…

Amar Chadha Patel!! don’t get me wrong i love Richard Armitage but i’ve seen a lot of people headcannoning him/the dwarves as south asian and i really dig that!! just give this man a little grey hair and he’s perfect

#thorin oakenshield #the hobbit #lotr #tolkien #king under the mountain #but replace mountain with me #who said that

[percki]

as an appalachian girl lucy gray’s character (and by extension the covey band) really cuts me deep because that’s my people. my life, my dances, my instruments. and within two-three generations all of it is gone.

#in katniss’s time the only remnants of the covey band are their songs #and even those are fading away - she was the only one who knew the valley song in her class #the people of district 12 are cut off from the forest #from the mountains and the green and the creatures and everything is replaced by capitol industry #they did an excellent job casting rachel zegler in the film because her voice is perfect for bluegrass/folk #and it’s just as compelling as it is in the book - maybe even moreso now that i can actually put the words to sound #thg #tbosas #lucy gray baird #the covey #in all honesty i cried when maude ivory sang oh my darling clementine in the book #even though it’s not exclusively appalachian of course but i used to listen to that song to fall asleep growing up #and if lucy gray sang shenandoah… oh you wouldn’t be able to get me out of that theater i’d be there sobbing forever #my dad plays the mandolin and i play guitar and we all know how to sing and that music is such an integral part of me #to see it represented like that breaks my heart #talk tag

[vintageghoststories]

anyways i care abt wtnv as a person who lives in a small town and is queer bc Yes Its Terrible but its My Home and i love it despite how much i fucking hate it and how much i wish it could change . Like Odifgtghhgjgj ALSO. with strexcorp and how many "outsiders" are coming into small towns to get away from city life Unknowingly Bring That City Life With Them and ruining the culture of the small towns And Also Capitalism Bad . like yeah they were so fucking right abt thatactually .

#ik im prolly beating. a dead horse BUT. im watching rodeo stadiums and farmland be replaced by Suburb Number 68 #and idk i feel like the strexcorp arc kinda touches on that a bit. BC YES wtnv is a dangerous place and its filled with terrible horrible #things . but its also filled with wonderful and beautiful terrors and people who care about the town And Yes Sometimes Things Do Need To #Change For The Better but that shouldnt come at the cost of the culture of the town [<-NOT saying i adore the normalized homophobia here #but as ive said there r things that i kinda adore abt this town despite it. ] #and when the Damaging Change Came the town fought back . They fought back together and won BECAUSE they fought together as a community . #and it matters so much to me bc maybe theres a future where this stupid hateful terrible beautiful wonderful town still has farms and rodeo #grounds and small hiking areas and the spot down by the river where the sunlight looks golden and the full night sky and the snow that #covers the mountain and and and . Anyways im having emotions #welcome to nightvale #welcome to night vale #wtnv

[miggylol]

ugh tomorrow I have to go to a meeting I've been dreading for a week

#it's about something big enough to need to be dealt with but still small enough that it p much feels like mountain/molehill time #not me but someone i supervise. i wouldn't be worried but a well-known temper is involved #i just reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally don't want to deal with hiring a replacement for next year if the dean lights that fuse #like. i'm sick of the drama with that temper. but dealing with a replacement hire would be way more work for me #ugh ugh ugh ugh UGH ugh ugh whatever. whatever! only way out is through

[picory]

zora have built a park dedicated to mipha on top of ploymus mountain, which also acts as their domain's clean water source! how lovely

mipha... i'm so glad that you were not forgotten by your people. watching over the domain even in death... augh

#making my way to the mountain and hearing the song that plays here made me tear up. oh boy #also sidon :-) my buddy #i was so shocked to find that mipha's statue has been replaced?!? i was ready to curse nintendo #it's all good now. i'm glad that statue exists as an acknowledgement of the events of BOTW... of sidon and link's heroism #quacks #totk lb #took my helmet off in Respect *bows*

[leatherbootlace]

The Mountain Engines were excited. Thanks to the Electric Engines and their new Branch Line, they’d more passengers than ever! They were all busy, and the coaches seemed jam-packed! The coaches felt the worst of it. They were mostly wood and would return to the sheds feeling quite warped after a full train.

“The Board and I,” said the Tall Controller one evening, “Have made a tough decision. We are getting more new coaches to phase out the older, smaller stock.”

The Mountain Engines murmured quietly among themselves. They had a feeling the coaches wouldn’t like the sound of that.

#ttte #rws #mountain engines #rws art #bootlace drabbles #did you know the culdee fell railway's original coaches were all scrapped? #I DIDN'T. #that's some interesting stuff right there and awdry did nothing with it! #you're telling me the mountain engines all got widowed during the 20s and went on all fine hunky dory??? #you're telling me the COACHES WOULDN'T HAVE ANY ISSUES WITH BEING REPLACED UP-FRONT??? #i swear awdry you're amazing but you're infuriating at times

[girljpg]

did not know what ppl were talking about in that bc post so I looked up the one I take and it's a combination pill. apparently. would it hurt my little body to start taking the one that's just progestin

#ive been using the same over the counter bc basically the whole time ive been abroad #my plan currently is to buy a small mountain of my pills to tide me over until i find a replacement #but if that over the counter pill comes out early next year I'm set

[rubythecrimsonwriter]

I need one day. ONE DAY. WITHOUT CRISES. PLEASE.

#personal #friend's grandfather is dying and while i dont like her family that much that will devastate her #ma has a spicket she's been trying to get fixed for weeks and it took me goong to a manufacturer and saying wtf is this and how to replace #grabbing a phone book for ma's town and just going down the list and see who would pick up #ask them point blank this is whats there now. they dont make this anymore. this is what i have. i need you to take out the old thing and #replace it with thr new thing. can you do that. #and it's still a two week wait #i have the parts on order for Ma #and im doing hurricane preparedness bullshit for a friend who moved to Georgia whos never been off this mountain previously #first day of hurricane season and we have a tropical storm already whoop de FUCKIN do #STRESS #im eating m&ms and just daring my phone to ring rn #i will do it i will pick up tbe phone and scream into the reciever dont think i wont and then i will hang up and leave the poor soul #GAAAHHHH #i just got the news that i dont have breast cancer YESTERDAY i need ONE DAY between major crises PLEASE

[augustine-orlov]

*does a lil dance to show that I'm frustrated with work*

#kuki.txt #I came to work instead of studying for exams #if I fail my exams I'm blaming work #plus I need to move mountains to try and find me replacements

[daisyachain]

Society if Gotham (2014) were good. However the fact that Gotham (2014) is so bad in so many ways feels like a blessing. If only one facet of the storytelling were that cheap, thin, clunky, and offensive then it would be intolerable. It would feel pointed, damaging, physically painful to witness. Yet it manages to capture all bases. The fridging of women keeps pace with the underdevelopment of its few characters of colour keeps pace with the stunningly homophobic tropes pulled out to neutralize the average-for-2010s-and-fitting-for-Batman level of queer depiction on screen. No one aspect feels too bad because—guess what! It’s not the worst-handled storyline

#chip on my shoulder the size of a mountain about That S3 Storyline but honestly? #having since seen what happened with The Magicians and Supernatural it’s not that bad #it makes a level of sense given the nature of the story as a prequel and in the last season #the loos ends are given room to breathe and now awkwardly tacked on to another story #the arc is abortive but nothing in the end replaces it. feels organic #kelsey liveblogs gotham #didn’t realize at the time that this level of natural gluten free bad writing would be enviable. thanks to sera gamble and spn #for proving me wrong

[rayneplumber]

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[kokumbabushka]

I love my dreams since getting a debit card/learning how to use them; before I was stressed about not having cash but now I just assume I have money/buy a lot in small-one at a time purchases. Problem is that since staying on campus most shopping is timed and almost every dream I’m like 15 minutes late

#I got scared one dream because a lot of the time the stores in my dreams are just different versions of the current ones I know #and after a few years I was able to memorize the general area of where the nice/cool things are #anyways what scared me is in a recent dream they got rid of the cool stuff and replaced it with like boring gardening stuff and appliances #but no- it is mostly normal again:)) #the only thing I will ever steal in my dreams is calico critters; for some reason they’re never in boxes + they just have old random one in #baskets #I also like finding the monster high dolls; they never look like the actual characters but still manage to be cool most of the time #last night I dreamt about finding what I thought was a brokeback mountain recipe cook but it mostly just had drawings of jack/ennis and some #mountains + other country involved things #ANOTHER thing I like about dreams is the fake ass movies I see in them lmao

[inkskinned]

i think a lot about exactly 1 thing from the roman empire: the concept of bread and circus. the idea was that if your population was fed and entertained, they wouldn't revolt. you are asking us to give up our one small life, is the thing - for under 15 dollars an hour.

what would that buy, even. i am trading weekends and late nights and my back health. i am trading slow mornings and long walks and cortisol levels. i am trading sleep and silence and peace. for ... this. for what barely-covers-rent.

life really is more expensive right now. you aren't making that up. i make almost 3 times what i did 5 years ago, and despite an incredibly equal series of bills - i am still struggling. the most expensive line item i added was to own a dog. the money is just evaporating.

we were okay with it because it's a cost-benefit analysis. i could handle the customer harassment and standing all day and the manager's constantly changing temperament - i was coming home to hope, and my life planned in a blue envelope. three hours would buy me my dog's food for a month. i can give up three hours for him, for his shiny coat and wide, happy mouth. three days could be a new mattress, if i was thrifty. if i really scrimped and saved, we could maybe afford a trip into the city.

recently i cried in the car about the price of groceries.

business majors will be mad at me, but my most inflammatory opinion is that people should never be valued at the same place as products. your staff should not be a series of numbers in an excel sheet that you can just "replace" whenever you need something at that moment. your staff should be people, end of sentence.

it feels like someone somewhere is playing a very bad video game. like my life is a toy. like someone opened an app on their phone and hired me in diner dash ultra. they don't need to pay me well or treat me alright - they can always just show me the door. there is always someone more desperate, always someone more willing.

but i go to work and know i could save for years and not afford housing. i am never going to own my own home, most likely. i have no idea how to afford her ring, much less the wedding. my dog doesn't have his own yard. everything i love is on subscription. if i lose my job, i have no "nest egg" to catch my falling.

this thin life - they want me to give up summer for it. to open my mouth and throat and swallow the horrible hours and counted keystrokes. they want me to give up mountains and any non-federal holiday. to give up snow days. to give up talking to my mom whenever i want. to give up visiting the ocean and hearing the waves.

bread and circus worked for a while, actually. it was the kind of plan that would probably now be denounced by republicans as socialist commie liberal pronoun bullshit.

but sometimes i wonder if we should point them to the part of the history book that says: it worked until it didn't.

#spilled ink #warm up #writeblr #i have a good job please shut the fuck up before telling me to get a better job #girl i have vision and dental. #if u blame the victim that's wild. do u know about economic systems

[foxxxnuggets]

I hate that I have to live in this house again. It smells like dog urine and food rot.

#bitching #no im not being hyper critical either #my mil let her dogs pee and poop everywhere and she clearly doesnt know how to properly shampoo a carpet #all the carpets in the house have to be replaced full stop. #and the food rot? she has rotting vegetables in her refrigerator and you can smell it when you walk in the door #its such a strong smell #shes really bad about how she keeps fresh food and leftovers #i honestly have no idea how i put up with this for 10 goddamn years #my room is so clean and i have not-yet-housebroken puppies #i Do Not want to live like this #some things are gonna have to change around here if im going to be able to stand living here #im not enthused about doing the mountain of moldy dishes but it has to be done i cannot deal with this #im gonna clean the washing machine too #Just Not Wanting to is not a good enough reason for me to live like this #i cannot #nope #i will not allow my family to live in a mess

[joaniejustwokeup]

🎶✨️when you get this, put 5 songs you like to listen to, then publish. Send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (negotiable, but positivity is cool)🎶✨️

#idk if I’ll actually send this to people #i was going to pick a different plaidScience mashup -my shelter my home- but tumblr wouldn’t let me #all of these feel kinda random? I feel like I’m going to go back the minute I post this and be like #should have done these other songs instead #i am incredibly surprised the mountain goats aren’t on this list #debated replacing birdhouse in your soul with ‘foreign object’ #or alpha rats nest #or kinderly by the medieval babes #or 70 excuses by k’naan #song

[chillyfeetsteak]

I first became fascinated with it a few years ago when I noticed it out an airplane window on a flight from Texas to Southern California. In an expanse of endless desert, suddenly, a vast body of water. When I got home, I immediately looked it up on a map. The Salton Sea.

It’s the largest landlocked body of water in California. It sits right on top of the San Andreas Fault at over 200 feet below sea level. It is more than twice as salty as the Pacific Ocean. It is completely toxic. And I had never heard of it before then.

(photo essay under the cut)

In the early 1900s the Colorado River was diverted through a series of irrigation canals in order to provide water for the farmlands of Imperial Valley. One of the head-gates broke during a flood, and the desert basin filled with water for 2 years before it was fixed. The unexpected lake soon became a popular vacation destination; it was stocked with fish, and resorts and hotels popped up along its shores. It became known as a great place for sport fishing, waterskiing, and yacht parties. Big name celebrities visited. At one point, it had more annual visitors than Yosemite.

Salton Sea has no outlet, and is only filled via agricultural runoff. As the water evaporated in the hot desert sun, the lake became more and more saline. Chemicals began to build up from the run off causing toxic algae blooms, and mass die-offs of fish and birds started in the 80s. By the 90s, the beaches were littered with fish gills and bird bones and the resorts were abandoned. The lake began to dry up as irrigation run-off was diverted away. The exposed lake bed is also toxic, and the high desert winds kick up the dust, making the air poisonous. 

Despite the unpleasant odor, the noxious air and the summer temperatures regularly reaching 120°, a renaissance of sorts began in the early 2010s. Artist and nomad colonies began to spring up around Salton Sea. Bombay Beach, once a popular resort destination, is now mostly a ghost town, but the folks who remain have turned the ruins on the shores into an outdoor art installation gallery where the found-art sculptures are cyclically destroyed by the elements and then replaced with new ones. Many of the houses and RVs in town are themselves art pieces.

In nearby Slab City, a settlement of off-the-grid lifestylers, you can find even more folk art. Salvation Mountain is a manmade hill painted with bright colors and bible verses and maintained by a community of volunteers. East Jesus is a sculpture garden and art installation. 

This past weekend my partner and I finally made the pilgrimage to the Sea. California has the benefit of being home to a huge array of biomes. In just a couple of hours you can travel from snowy mountain peaks to lush oases to endless sand dunes. Driving the hour or so south from Palm Springs towards Salton Sea is like driving towards the end of the world.

Bombay Beach especially enamored me. The beach is crusted with salt and millions of tiny shells and bones. It smells awful, like sewage and chemicals and low-tide and rotting fish. You drive out onto the beach and park anywhere amongst the sculptures and deteriorating resort ruins. The art feels raw in a way I haven’t experienced before. It reminds me of seeing paleolithic cave art. Humans made this, with no motivation other than to create something intriguing or beautiful or sad. Not much can live out here, but what you find fills me with a great adoration for humanity. Despite the asphyxiation of the natural world, the human spirit persists.

#im sure most people know about this place but i didnt so!! #i hated writing essays in school but now in my 30s i do it for fun apparently #photos are all mine except the first one #salton sea #bombay beach #slab city #salvation mountain