#i fully acknowledge that

[the-quiet-fire-of-defiance]

Te Hōkioi, and Speculation on the Dietary Habits of the Great Eagles

He Hōkioi, i runga, he Hōkioi, i runga, hū.

(The great eagle, from above, made a booming call)

Kei te āputa koe, nā, o te rangi, e noho ana,

(In the open space, there, in the sky, it dwells)

Te hoa moenga, nō whatitiri mātakataka;

(Death's companion, with crashing thunder)

Hei aha, tērā, e tararua mārire, ona hikumaro?

(Why, then, do its tail feathers no longer split the quiet in two?)

Rua maro tonu, ona hakikau;

(Two fathoms wide, its wings;)

E huhū nei, i runga te rangi,

(It called, above in the sky)

Hōkioi, Hōkioi.

(The sound: hōkioi, hōkioi.)

- poem/chant by the great Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha

For @tolkienofcolourweek, I'm spending seven days bringing Māoritanga and mātauranga Māori to the world of Tolkien! Starting off on day 1 with: what did Manwë's Eagles eat?

Such massive animals, especially flying ones, would have required a huge caloric intake. We have little evidence about what potential prey may have existed in Beleriand and Middle Earth. The Hobbit mentions them eating sheep, and it seems likely that they would hunt other large animals, such as deer or bison. But there's nothing in our modern world that compares to or fills an ecological niche like Manwë's Eagles.

This is where I draw on Māori oral history of the largest eagles to ever live.

In English they're called Haast's Eagles, but in Māori there are several names. Probably the most well-known of the Māori names is pouakai/poukai, but my people called them hōkioi.

They were massive, weighing as much as 17.8 kg (about 39 lbs) and with wingspans as large as 3 metres (about 10ft). Their feet and claws were the size of modern day tigers, capable of punching through bone. They hunted prey more than fifteen times their own size.

(Granted, the eagles of Manwë are much larger than even the hōkioi! Still, it's similar enough for me to draw inspiration.)

[Left image: an artist's rendition of a hōkioi perched on a rock. Right image: an artist's rendition of a hōkioi attacking the neck of a giant flightless bird.]

The hōkioi's primary prey was the moa, large flightless birds similar to ostriches or emus. With no large land mammals on the islands, hōkioi were the apex predators.

Then, circa 900 CE, large mammals came to Aotearoa for the first time. They also preyed on moa, reducing the hōkioi's food supply. So perhaps it was natural that the hōkioi began to hunt these mammals as new prey.

Unfortunately, those mammals were us.

[Left image: an artist's rendition of a hōkioi attacking a Māori man who holds a spear. Right image: an artist's rendition of a child running from a hōkioi.]

Our stories of the hōkioi, or pouakai, tell of giant birds that could swoop down from the sky to kill and eat even strong warriors. They were also known to carry off small children.

I'm not saying that the eagles of Manwë ate elves or humans. (I think they were probably given firm instructions not to!) It would make sense for them to prey on orcs and other creatures of Morgoth, though. And there's one other group who we know were hunted like animals in Beleriand, due to... misunderstandings. A group who the Eagles may not have initially recognized as sentient creatures. A group who would have been an ideal size to pick up and carry off as a snack.

I'm just saying, I think there may have been multiple reasons that dwarves chose to live underground.

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(Sources for further information about te hōkioi:

The man-killer that fell from the sky

NZ Birds: Haast's Eagle)

#silmarillion #silm meta #the giant eagles #tocweek2023 #māori-fying tolkien #mine #yes this is a little bit cracky #i fully acknowledge that #so please don't be weird in my notes and inbox #(also i SWEAR i haven't forgotten about my wips and i promise i'm working on them!)

[hard-times-paramore]

My feelings on Lies of P

#like. I fully acknowledge that it's way too similar to bloodborne #however... I like bloodborne #Lies of P #Bloodborne #my posts

[ohmthipakorn]

bed friend, episode 3

middleman's love, episode 3

#kinguea #middleman's love #middleman's love the series #the middleman's love #bed friend #bed friend the series #until i was writing this caption it did not fully hit me that these are both episode 3 #i think about them more than is probably clinically advised #anyway have you thought about how these lines are such a perfect depiction of their relationship #king. lying through his teeth saying that he doesnt like uea #because he knows that is the only way uea will let a fwb relationship between them operate #king protecting them both because neither of them have it in them to be honest #to uea proudly and happily and easily declaring their love #not just that he loves king #but acknowledging that he knows king loves him #something that uea had honestly come to believe was impossible #but it is king's love and honesty and support that has allowed uea to love himself more #and to realize he is capable of being loved by others #no more lies no more hiding in order to protect their hearts #just their love. simple plain and honest for everyone to see #they are ..... so perfect #*

[rhiaemrys]

I love having been able to watch a little, about how tumblrs "Batman uses child soldiers argument" has shifted so much. Like it used to be agreed that Bruce is at fault and yet. Comics canon proves otherwise.

Dick Grayson went for his parents murderers throats LONG before he put on the scaley panties

You're going to look me in the eye and say that the minute Jason Peter Todd got the chance to he wouldn't absolutely knock the shit outta a dude harassing a working girl?

TIM LITERALLY FOLLOWED THEM HOME AND WENT "Stop being idiots, you need robin and if it's gotta be me then FINE" and then MADE HIMSELF ONE

Stephanie brown snuck into the Batcave in a homemade suit and told Bruce to train her or suck it the fuck up

Even Damian one way or another would be involved in this if he HADNT been trained by the Al Ghuls to be a tiny child assassin

And this doesn't even account for all the other "of child age" heroes that keep popping up without Bruce's will. Bruce doesn't train child soldiers, this man trains feral gremlins of children who at any moment are ready to snap and beat the shit outta some criminal. They're literally only looking for an excuse at this point.

#dc #batfam #batfamily #batman #tim drake #robin #dick grayson #jason todd #stephanie brown #damian wayne #bruce wayne #I fully acknowledge this is a heavy watering down of their stories but its funny specifically to ME the way this conversation has evolved

[upsidedog]

god the scene in season one where jonathan comes home to joyce and lonnie on the couch drinking together is harrowing. it makes me want to cry just thinking about it, your brother is dead, your mom is horrible mental state and is now also introducing your abusive father back into your house. what a fucking nightmare.

#i think it’s unproductive to try to determine whether joyce is a fully ‘good’ or ‘bad’ mother especially without acknowledging the #intricacies of grief or abuse or how victims go back to their abusers or how your son is stuck in a hell dimension but i think it’s obvious #she was at least being a bad parent to jonathan all of season one he was absolutely put through the ringer and joyce even temporarily #letting lonnie back in is just the cherry on top #anyway season one is sooooooo damn good it’s so fucking good it’s actually a good show in season one #i adore the funeral scene where dustin goes ‘wait till will hears jennifer hayes cried at his funeral!’ so cute so funny #and nancy. NANCY. the angels wept! #the scene where steve tries to get her to go to the movies vs the first ep… she is not a frivolous high school girl anymore. that can’t be #her life

[gimmethemprimals]

🌊 wavecrest-confessions  Follow

whenever I see someone making fun of the tidelords disappearance I get SO angry. Its just so insensitive to water dragons, and it ALWAYS comes from a wind, earth, or ice dragon. Like I don’t think you have any ground to stand on guys, your deities are still more neglectful than the tidelord and he’s not even here

���️ ice-ice-baby  Follow

Dude your god has been gone for so long his long lost children came back before him

🪨 freshpebble-deactivated

Aren’t you the one who carved your fanart of femboy Icewarden into the side of the pillar.

❄️ ice-ice-baby  Follow

???? You’re literally a shade apologist

💫 see-the-stars  Follow

HOW ARE THERE SHADE APOLOGISTS ON DRUMBLR IN THIS DAY AND AGE I THOUGHT THEY WERE ONLY ON DRITTER

🍃 riding-high  Follow

are we gonna just brush over the femboy icewarden thing

🦅 talonafan2477  Follow

@ see-the-stars the Arcanist is the ORIGINAL shade apologist what are you talking about

🦅 talonafan2477  Follow

btw “ice ice baby” is apart of from clan froststep that has a history of supporting the gaolers during the freezeflash war and thus the destruction of the banescales

🌑 walkingshadows Follow

Yeah but what about the femboy icewarden thing

🔥 its-gettin-hot  Follow

you can excuse genocide but draw the line at femboy icewarden?

🌑 walkingshadows Follow

im not drawing the line i just wanna see it myself

🌺 bug-claws Follow

thats fair

#flight rising #fr #unreality #unreality tw #fake post #tw femboy #???? #I PROMISE that i didnt mean to use it in like?? a transmisogynistic way I have only ever heard it used to refer to like #a guy (whether cis or not) who dresses in a feminine way and like… a term exaggerated by the internet? #please dont take this as me trying to like say that its NOT a derogatory term and that I was just ill informed but I dont really know #what else to do about it at this point #and my real intention here was to emulate irl tumblr posts and I fully understand that even using it in a comedic factor doesn’t excuse #the usage of a derogatory term but I don’t use that word in my normal vocab? #idk im sorry if this sounds bad long story short I’ve never seen it used in that way but I acknowledge that I could just be uninformed

[notwarriorswiki]

I need to reread The New Prophecy before I say for sure but Brambleclaw being offered the deputy position and turning it down would’ve been a far more fitting end to his arc upon feeling acceptance within his clan - because the true acceptance was never the rank, it was the family he found.

#bramble was a huge comfort character to me as a child and I fully acknowledge how shit he became #but he’s still so important to me and he has a lot of great themes #Brambleclaw #I think sandstorm should just be deputy #or brackenfur #or Longtail #I really like it being Longtail #I also like the idea of it being Dustpelt… #maybe I should keep Dustpelt alive longer?? I’d still kill off Hazelpaw though #Hazelpaw’s death is a big driver for the MouseMinnow storyline admittedly #warrior cats #po12

[littledead-ridinghood]

It’s not that Jason came back to a changed family where he didn’t fit into the gap he left behind anymore. It’s the fact that his family never scooted over to make more space for him once he returned.

#jason todd #jason todd meta #<- mini and tagging because I can <3 #going insane over Jason being fine with changing but never expected that the others around him wouldn’t acknowledge change #like Jason was alive before anyone else knew. he knew he was different. he was around for those years before he returned to Gotham #Bruce—and others—thought hw was still underground #Jason had years to adjust to himself (no matter how well he did or didn’t) while the others had to play catch up #Jason wasn’t trying to squeeze himself back into the dynamic that once was #but he didn’t expected to be shoved back into that space and then denied more by others #jason fully preparing for one obvious outcome unaware that theirs another hiding in plain sight is murdering me #I was going to add caveats but I’m going to try to trust others to acknowledge long term relationships and not just focus on pre-flashpoint #returned as in both to Gotham and as a ‘prodigal son’ <-you all know how I feel about that :/

[charlieconwayy]

Favorite Character Meme [5/5 Relationships]: Shawn & Turner

"Turner took care of you, he loves you. And you love him."

#bmwedit #boy meets world #shawn hunter #jonathan turner #fcmeme #* #gifs: bmw #i will admit i never fully appreciated their relationship until the podcast came out #mainly bc it's just so bizarre to me how in s4 WHEN TURNER WAS STILL ON THE SHOW they barely acknowledged their relationship #and then just never mentioned him again (outside of the one joke in the s5 finale) #weirdos in ao3 archive also soured me #but rider and tony worked SOOOOO well together and hearing rider talk ab how much he loved this sl warmed my heart #any positive memories rider has of playing shawn i automatically latch onto #i love that look turner gives chet in that one gif. like he HATES than man #and also fuck cult fiction forever

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

glad to know im not the only one that thinks Freya should be kissing women

#god of war #god of war ragnarok #god of war spoilers #god of war freya #that's my wife kratos sorry #(jk i fully acknowledge their polycule with mimir and potentially tyr) #mine

[ipwarn]

Just watched the latest Starkid livestream - yes of course I was awake at 5 am on a Sunday - and I love this very specific throughline of Darren's life. It is especially clear after listening to his recent episodes of And That's What You Really Missed. Darren has always pissed off the people around him by being happy when everyone else was stressed.

Nick and Matt went on a mini rant about their experience making Starship and how the show was so derailed by Darren getting cast in Glee. He barely managed to write half of the intended songs for that show - all in his trailer on the Glee set. Matt specifically recounted the story of Darren popping over to Chicago to surprise his friends while they were rehearsing and it was hilarious. Darren being Darren he thought they would all be thrilled to see him and just thrilled to be doing a new musical, but instead he was met with dead silence, followed by a demand for the rest of the songs.

This man is forever happy to be making fun things with a big group of people. And the people around him have to deal with it.

The actual world inside Darren's head VS everyone around him:

#I did love what he said on ATWYRM #like he fully acknowledged how annoying that can be #if it's a really stressful day and he is fucking bouncing off the walls in his giddiness #Jenna and Kevin both seemed to imply his joy was consistent and at times very grating #which is 100% fair #he must have been told to shut the fuck up so many times on the set of Glee and in Starkid shows #Darren #Starkid #Glee #I will say I do love the Starship songs so damn much #especially The Way I Do #it's a beautiful love song

[disniq]

The thing is, I actually think it's a super interesting angle to look at the intersection of trauma and mental illness and vigilantism and coping mechanisms with Jason's character.

But, for me, if you want to seriously ask at what point does Jason need therapy more than he needs the vigilante lifestyle it's not Red Hood Jason you should be looking at. Red Hood Jason was literally murdered and the mysteriously resurrected. That's not something you can therapy your way out of! That's something that no amount of talking will ever help you understand, because it's a completely incomprehensible event!

No, if anyone needs therapy it's 12 year old Jason.

It's 12 year old Jason, who has poverty trauma and homelessness trauma and prison system trauma and parentification trauma and drug related trauma and, depending on your reading, potentially sexual trauma.

It's 12 year old Jason, who is taken in by Bruce - a man who is *also* severely traumatised (in extremely different ways) and chooses to dress up as a Bat and punch people about it instead of seeking healthy coping strategies.

It's 12 year old Jason, who Bruce decides - without psychiatric training or so much as a second opinion - needs the same outlet that "helped" Bruce and "helped" Dick.

And by the time aditf rolls around, Bruce is maybe just realising that he's made a mistake. But it's too late, because for two years he's told this child - a child who arguably feels indebted to him, a child who is extremely isolated and had very few if any other trusted adults to talk to - that violence and avoidance is how you deal with emotions.

I think that's fascinating to think about!

That Bruce's own failure to process his trauma left him blind to what Jason might actually have benefited from! That if Bruce had noticed Jason struggling earlier, if he'd reacted differently or explained himself better in aditf, Jason might not have felt the need to travel around the world alone looking for a woman he'd never met and only just learned about!

That if *Bruce* had been healthier, had been to therapy instead of throwing all his energy into vigilantism, none of this might have happened!

Reframe Red Hood Jason as a tragedy of Bruce's own making, not because of the classist bullshit that Jason was always going to end up a criminal and Bruce failed to stop that, but because Bruce's terrible coping mechanisms became *Jason's* terrible coping mechanisms and nobody likes to see the worst parts of themselves in the mirror.

#jason todd #bruce wayne #they're mirrors! you can't say jason should get therapy and quit vigilantism and nit say the same about bruce! #like i fully understand that the comics can't take this angle because that would mean accepting that batman makes mistakes #that he's not always right and correct and fucking infallible #but this idea is so prevalent in fandom and i just. c'mon guys. don't do DCs victim blaming for them #if you're going to say Jason's lifestyle choices are self harming you have to acknowledge where he learned them #my meta

[svtskneecaps]

(everyone arguing on call about what the purgatory event eggs mean)

bagi: YOU'RE BEING DUMB!! YOU'RE BEING STUPID!!!

roier: HOLY SHIT NO MAMES

cellbit: ok listen up-

bagi: NONONONONO, YOU'RE MY FUCKING BROTHER AND YOU'RE SAYING STUPID STUFF, I WON'T ALLOW THAT

philza: YOU GUYS ARE FUCKING SIBLINGS?????????

#qsmp #qsmp purgatory #THEY FULLY DID NOT ACKNOWLEDGE IT TOO THEY JUST KEPT TALKING LMFAO #BAGI AND CELLBIT JUST KEPT TRUCKING LMFAOOOOO #qsmp vodblogging #FOOLISH LITERALLY REPEAT JUMP CRITTING THE BOLAS EGG JUST TO SEE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN #i missed this part live bc i had a meeting #this is so fucking funny #PFFFFF HE STARTED SCOLDING CHAT #'IT'S NOT DOING ANY DAMAGE GUYS LOOK AT ITS HEALTH AT THE TOP!!!!!' #shut up vic #block game brainrot #edit: SORRY GUYS I STILL DON'T KNOW HOW TO CLIP OR I'D BE INCLUDING THEM #if i keep quoting shit maybe i'll do some shitty screen recordings and see how that works #otherwise i'll try to be better about leaving time stamps in the tags lol my bad #it's in the notes for this one

[tobisiksi]

the disastrous life of saiki k its only a comedy anime because we see everything from kusuo's pov and the things that's happens in the episode are just a normal day for him so he sees everything like normal and even comedic

I just KNOW that if it was from someone else's pov the anime would turn into psychological horror

#JUST LOOK AT THE TIME LOOP EPISODE OMG #he treats everything as a comedy or just as an annoyance cuz is the everyday thing for him #but damn #ku wont acknowledge his problems #at least he wont acknowledge them as slmething seriously he will just call them a bother #if it wasnt a comedy ppl would also acknowledge more how weird his family is #dont get me wrong btw #i love them but you cannot convince me that kusuke's behaviour is right.... #and abt kurumi and kuniharu #you cant convice me that they dont have the fault of kusuke's behaviour #They must have taught Kusuke that it is not okay to modify your brother's power limiters so that when he removes one his darkest secret will #-be revealed to the world #COME ON GUYS #kusuke explained that in front of these two EVERYOEN SAW THAT #WHY NO ONE ACKNOWLEDGES HOW FUCKED UP IT THIS?? #these two didnt said anything #they were just surprised for two seconds but nothing else #again dont get me wrong #they have good intentions and everything but i think that theyre not fully capable of having kids #no one is ready to have kids but in this case there is a genius with psychopath tendencies and saitama w pink hair #there is a lot of things that could go wrong #even worse if they cannot pick up some fucked up things like what i mentioned before #theyre trying his best tho #(at least kurumi is) #but its not enough #saiki k #the disastrous life of saiki k #kusuo saiki #kusuke saiki #kurumi saiki

[fistfuloflightning]

…the light of stars was in her bright eyes, grey as a cloudless night; yet queenly she looked, and thought and knowledge were in her glance, as of one who has known many things that the years bring.

Arwen for the MXTX-Tolkien remix

#lotr #mxtx tolkien #mxtx #my art #tolkien art #arwen undomiel #tolkien #I have lots of ideas abt how the elven kingdoms being sects would work in ME since elvish immortality =cultivation #and how aragorn wouldn’t have a fully formed core/wouldn’t be able to cultivate to immortality despite being raised in the Imladris sect #and elrond would be against arwen breaking her own cultivation for him and be separated from her family forever #while they ascend as immortals and she dies a mortal #mostly an excuse for aragorn to call her shijie 🤭 #and a note on the feanorian stars: they were an unorthodox sect but elrond used their teachings after they got wiped out to build his own #he acknowledges his parents’ sects but the feanorians are where his heart lies

[p1nkc4lyps0]

Damn these twinks built completely identical huh, wonder what that��s about

#cw sh #isat #isat fanart #isat siffrin #isat loop #isat spoilers #isat odile #isat isabeau #anyway I don’t think loop wanted to wear clothes but Bonnie mentioned how weird the fact they were ‘naked’ #and like idk loop has the most fragile ego and cares so much about the child liking them that this needed to be fixed IMMEDIATELY #they would us the opportunity to request 2 inch heels to be taller than siffren (since sif has like 1 inch heels) and uh it’s been a while #their ass keeps like stumbling on rough terrain and REFUSES to acknowledge it or else they get sensitive #anyway unrelated odile clocks the loop siffren thing so fast but she’s never the one discovering information #other party members will accidentally prompt some information out of them and Odile like snaps her neck in the suitable direction to listen #also odile is helping sif either fully remove or swap out their bandages because god am I definitely normal about the act 5 glass dialogue #I thinks odile helps with sifs injuries :) I think she reminds him to like put stuff on his eye scar cause bitches forgetful