#living in the shire

[shirecorn]

GOD I wish the minimum wage was a living wage.

I'm not flipping burgers, I'm cleaning litterboxes and doing basic vet care like checking weights, administering medicine, bathing, using IVs, keeping records, making lists, doing photography, and way way more. But the point is even if I was just cleaning litterboxes... I love the work. I wish I could pay rent. Shouldn't I be able to clean litterboxes and feed cats who were rescued from the streets and do that fulfilling wonderful work without wondering where I'm going to live?

Shouldn't someone be able to flip burgers, make art, clean up trash, care for the oceans, teach your children, or rescue animals without being forced to choose between their job and their bills?

What if I don't WANT to climb the ladder and use my degree and search for high stress high pay jobs in order to live? What if I want the high stress job of seeing a kitten crashing below survivable temperature and bringing them back from the brink of death, knowing that I'm the only thing standing between this homeless, unwanted kitten and an early grave?

Shouldn't that be enough? Shouldn't I be able to afford food and rent by doing that?

I don't want to work at a vet office that can give me steady pay increases. I want to work here, with cats who have no owners, nursing them back to health and helping pick their forever home. I want the infrastructure to support me in doing that. I want the laws to say I can and have programs in place to make it so my shelter CAN support me. I want rent to reflect wages. I want wages to reflect rent.

I want to help the world and be able to survive doing it. I want to thrive doing it. I want that for everyone.

#shire screams #minimum wage #living wage #capitalism #not art #ramble machine #also gas is $6 a gallon at minimum

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bingqiu ponies (Happy Birthday @Piosplayhouse!)

#poorly drawn svsss #svsss #luo binghe #shen qingqiu #equineswap au #They live in the same universe: I'm making it canon right now #I do think there are probably better horse breeds to assign these two #but as far as my little PD-SVSSS guys go - I think these fit alright. #Arabian for the gracefulness and elegance. Beautiful horse (all horses are beautiful so its a close race) #(and the missing rib. Cause....you know....) #Didn't quite get the head shape right but there is always next time. #Shetland binghe for the handsome little guy energy. I personally think a non silly little guy LBH would be a shire horse. #This is 100% an open invitation to debate and discuss in the comments and tags btw. I am no expert on SV or horses. #Also HI PIO! If you're reading this I just want to say thank you a million times over for everything. #You've been so kind and supportive and I think you are a brilliant and hilarious person. The tides of the yaoi wars turned when you enliste #I hope this next year for you brings wonderful things. You're a brilliant force in this world and we all are drawn to your light. #Happiest of birthdays to you B*)

[asoftepiloguemylove]

YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN MY DREAM // CHIRON AND KEVIN

Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins // Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins // Warsan Shire "Souvenir," Our Men Do Not Belong to Us // Anne Sexton A Self-Portrait in Letters // Olivia Gatwood "The Lover as a Cult," Life of the Party // Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins // Anne Sexton "The Papa and Mama Dance," Complete Poems of Anne Sexton // Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins // Terry Pratchett Good Omens // Richard Siken Crush // Louise Glück Departure // Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins // Margaret Atwood The Door

#watched moonlight yesterday #i hope they live happily and grow old together #moonlight #moonlight movie #barry jenkins #on self #on love #on falling in love #web weave #web weaving #warsan shire #anne sexton #olivia gatwood #terry pratchett #richard siken #margaret atwood #poetry #words #writing #text #poem #spilled poetry #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #spilled emotions #trevante rhodes #andre holland #dark academia poetry #dark academia #dark academia quote

[sunnyrosewritesstuff]

I had this thought awhile back but Thorin is not popular amongst the dwarves (he only got 13 of them to follow him), and Bilbo is not popular amongst hobbits (the loner bachelor of Bag End). So I really need Bilbo in Erebor/Reshirement fics where they thrive in each other’s societies.

Bilbo was born to be Consort under then mountain, and everyone loves him! The Council appreciates his polite but firm negotiation tactics and this hobbit has a good head for business. And the people love how friendly and personable he is every time he comes to market. They don’t see many royals who remember their mother’s favorite caserole recipe after all. And by extension, Thorin gains popularity because he can’t be all bad if he managed to land such a little charmer.

Likewise, I need hobbit wives tripping over themselves to get to the forge to see the tall, silent, stunningly beautiful new blacksmith and did you hear he used to be royal? How did Bilbo Baggins land that hot piece of ass? And of course Bilbo has made him so nervous over all the different rules in hobbit society that most of the time Thorin merely nods and smiles at him, and isn’t that cute? He’s shy. So they naturally take him under their wing, inviting him to afternoon teas to fatten him up, and Thorin thinks all Shire food is amazing so he’s quick to offer up his compliments on their cooking which nearly sends them swooning. And of course the male hobbits want to be jealous, but Thorin is fair in price and his work is immaculate and he wears Bilbo’s flowers proudly so he’s certainly not straying from Master Baggins, he’s just very charming and they can’t begrudge him that.

Like Bilbo and Thorin should make each other better. And certainly it doesn’t have to be “everyone loves them and there’s never any problems”, but I just feel like it should be a deal of “FINALLY! I’ve been a duck out of water for so long and this is clearly where I belong.”

#the hobbit #bagginshield #i mean am i wrong #bonus points for Bilbo and Thorin to be both perplexed but strangely proud of this development #more bonus points if they live in both Erebor and the Shire during different parts of the year

[shiresome]

I LIVE FOR THEM

#im trembling with the effort of not drawing jane and dell #on the verge of tears i will live #mortal kombat #mk #tanya #mileena #fanart #shire art #pov youre me and only come like two inches off the ground

[havenotwillnotreadthebooks]

Ok but consider; The Valar lie about Maglor being in Mandos.

So let's say Maglor is in middle-earth getting therapy Hobbit-Style. He’s living his best life in The Shire healing from his trauma.

But on the other side of that damn ocean, his concerned, reembodied family (minus Feanor, stubborn ass spirit of fire) are told that he is healing in Mandos. The Valar are thinking it’s fiiiine because he is healing and will probably come to Valinor eventually, right? So what’s the harm?

Meanwhile, the reembodied Sons of Feanor are getting suspicious, and Finrod keeps looking at Maedhros with his “I Know Something They Don’t” look (Maedhros knows every look on his baby cousins’ faces. He babysat every finwean child until Maeglin was begotten. Maedhros Can Tell Something Is Afoot.)

A brief interlude for @dreamingthroughthenoise and @cuarthol ‘s joint Finrod Headcanon; whereas Finrod is the one who created the Sea Longing via trying to get Maglor to come home. Read more about that at your own delight.

Interlude over; So The Valar starts to Sweat because now people are asking questions Galadriel is whispering schemes to her brothers and Finrod is whispering right back (Orodreth is stuck between them happily, the sap). Then the Arafinweans start scheming with the Feanorians and you know the Nolofinweans (*cough* Fingon & Aredhel *cough*) are gonna go kicking down doors to invite themselves into The Scheming.

Before long, the entire finwean fam is Scheming and playing the “I’m sleeping over at the Feanorians’ house” and “I’m sleeping over at the Nolofinweans’ house” game with their parents (Except the Arafinweans, whose parents have long since given up trying to keep track of their children).

Anyway at the end of it all, even Ulmo is in on The Scheming, which helps when the finweans go on a treasure hunt for their last family member in Middle-Earth. The hobbits throw a huge goodbye party. Gandalf is there.

#tag.words #maglor #finweans #finrod #Maedhros #hobbit healing #silm headcanons #in honor of those Maglor Lives In The Shire fics #valar #sons of feanor

[birbwell]

happy late birthday to the game that changed my brain chemistry, Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth (2017) ! click for quality :]

#the pillars of the earth #pillars of the earth #philip of gwynedd #aliena of shiring #jack jackson #tom builder #waleran bigod #birbwelldraws #medieval #5 days late... thats ok i live forever #im not a graphic designer by any means so the sizes and lines are all off. ou! #can you tell that ths is my favorite game ever of all time. can you #also i tried so hard on the symbolism and format BUT i had to put in cat catface #he kind of ruins the flow of alienas piece but. i need him to be there. hes the whimsy

[glorfindelridesagain]

Bilbo: You shouldn’t drink young Frodo, it’s bad for you.

Frodo: Carrots may be good for your eyes but alcohol doubles your vision.

Bilbo: No.

Thorin: I mean, technically-

Bilbo: No.

#Bagginshield #Bilbo #Bilbo Baggins #Baggins #The Hobbit #Hobbits #The Shire #Frodo #Frodo Baggins #Thorin #Thorin Oakenshield #Oakenshield #Himbo Dwarf #Dwarf #Dwarves #gay Thorin #Erebor #The Lonely Mountain #If Frodo had lived with Thorin and Bilbo #LOTR #Lord of the Rings #The Lord of the Rings #Tolkien #JRR Tolkien #Middle Earth #Martin Freeman #Richard Armitage #Elijah Wood #incorrect quotes #incorrect hobbit quotes

[bluecaeriart]

just thinking about bilbo thinking about how in love with thorin he is and how grateful hes alive and of their lives together in the shire and how theyre both just so happy and at peace and O;IRGAO;HIERGO;ALEIGHO;AIERG

#the hobbit #bilbo baggins #Thorin Oakenshield #bagginshield #my art #posting this separately since its a mini comic and i didnt want it to be lost in a giant doodle collection #BUT THIS IS TOTALLY WHAT HAPPENED RIGHT LIIKE 100% #RIGHT GUYS AM I RIGHT SWEATS PROFUSELY #bilbo and thorin got to live a happy life and raise frodo in the shire

[wedarkacademia]

The House, Warsan Shire

#Home #warsan shire #dark academia #quotes #spilled words #spilled thoughts #dark aesthetic #words words words #dark acadamia aesthetic #text #book quotes #wordstoliveby #aesthetic #words #mood #moodboard #grief #feelings #quotes to live by #true words #quotations #The House

[an-odd-hobbit]

I need some super soft shire!au bagginshield in my life right now. I want mundane domesticity and nosey neighbors and then, at night, Bilbo’s fingers running gently through Thorin’s growing beard, and Thorin’s broad thumb playing with the point of Bilbo’s ear, and tea left forgotten on the side table because they started feeding each other little cakes and one thing led to another and they ended up on the rug

#bagginshield #shire au #shire aus are my favorite because I want Thorin to finally live an unburdened life

[shirecorn]

I have also drawn trolls angst. In fact trolls angst is the first thing I drew.

#dreamworks trolls #trolls #trolls 3 #trolls floyd #trolls 3 floyd #trolls angst #trolls 3 fanart #trolls 3 angst #floyd dying #floyd angst #shire draws #fanart #trolls fanart #showed my sister and she was like whats wrong with you??? #please tell me there's someone out there who also enjoys killing a man to death on live television #trolls 3 band together

[longclawshilt]

Every now and then I remember how some people were trying to diminish Jon’s importance by going “oh he’s not Aragorn, he’s at best Frodo!!” which….one is just super false, Jon is an Aragorn analogue (learn how to deal with it). But also, in an attempt to disprove Jon’s importance they actually proved it. Because what you mean he’s “at best” Frodo? Y’all know Frodo is the main character, right? Not Aragorn. It’s Frodo.

#jon snow #asoiaf #honestly it just comes down to people’s fixation with having their fave be le king #and trying to say jon can’t be king because he’s going to fuck off at the end of the story like frodo but like #they forget or maybe don’t even know that frodo was mayor and helped rebuild the shire for a good number of years #and then he got to fuck off with the elves FOR HEALING!! #like magic left middle earth which was super sad but frodo got to go live with the elves which is cool #really it’s just the irony of trying to say jon’s not giving main character energy…and then proving that he in fact is #by comparing him to frodo of all people ansjsnnsbs #the irony is not lost on me with that one

[yea-baiyi]

i’m sure people smarter than me have said this, but the odyssey is the sequel to the monomyth actually. in the hero’s journey the hero departs from home, from innocence, from safety, to fulfil his destiny. in homer’s the odyssey, the war is over, the destiny fulfilled. next comes the real fight, the unwinnable fight—to return to everything you left home to fight for.

in the first half of the poem, while odysseus fights tooth and nail to return home, his home fights with its last breath to give odysseus a home to return to. and time is running out. his wife penelope is down to her last desperate excuse. suitors have invaded his home, eating through his household and his wealth. his son, telemachus, almost grown, leaves home for the first time to find out if odysseus is still alive, if there is still a reason to keep fighting. having lost everything he had, over and over, odysseus is finally allowed to arrive in his homeland. at first he doesn’t recognise it. and he is cursed to look old and decrepit, so that none of his loved ones would recognise him.

for the second half of the poem, he has returned and miraculously, he has not been displaced or forgotten. but now he has to reclaim what was his. and removing the rot, restoring this place to the home odysseus remembers, is long and painful. instead of walking through the front door, he must sneak in through the back or risk being thrown out. not a single person knows him by sight; odysseus must prove his identity over and over, to every member of his household. he must retell story after story, share secret after secret, reveal every marking or scar upon his body, to finally be recognised by his own family. and then he destroys every last trace of the intruders—kills the men, kills the servants, wipes the slate clean.

by athena’s magic, he is restored to his former youth and glory as he reunites with his wife. the families of the slain suitors try to seek revenge, but zeus, lord of the skies, intervenes. odysseus, filled with his god-given strength, is home, and ready to fight to protect it.

it’s a complete sequel to the heroes journey, but what makes it part of the monomyth is the horrible truth about odysseus’ tale: that it’s impossible. that you will leave, and your home will change in your absence, and someone might fill your place; your family won’t recognise you, your wife met someone else, intruders have destroyed your home, and you will never be as young as you were. you will return and you will fight with every ounce of your strength and it won’t be enough to turn back the clock. it’s the terrible last chapter to every hero’s story that we don’t like to talk about.

and yet, of course, it’s the same story we tell over and over: we’ve won the war, now all we want is to return home, but home is no longer somewhere we can reach.

#the odyssey #hero’s journey #the monomyth #greek mythology #odyssey #homeric hyperfixation haze #sorry this has nothing to do with mxtx but i’ve been sitting on this thought about the odyssey for months #like. i’m sure this isn’t a new thought but. #you think of tolkien and the scourging of the shire #all quiet on the western front #narnia #all the chinese poets #i want to go home. but i am home. #think about how the odyssey ends at the very second athena declared the conflict over. #we don’t see odysseus reaction to it. we see him ready to fight. athena declares a peace. #but it is abrupt. as if athena is slamming the window shut. he won he’s happy that’s enough. #does he manage to live after that? we don’t get to know #i was sitting on this thought for ages. and then i read the greek tragedies. was helping my friend with a paper on home by toni morrison #and yeah this all clicked. got irresistible

[waiitiridge]

there is something so peaceful about summer rain 🌱

lughnasadh marks the start of the harvesting season and the late summer fruits are right on schedule. Heaps of jalapeno, pumpkins, and tomatoes in the garden with the gem corn on it's way. Only have one large melon on our vine with a couole smaller ones set but lucky for us, the local farms have all their small and ugly ones at reasonable prices.

#cottagecore #cottage life #slow living #cottagecore aesthetic #hobbitcore #gardencore #life in the shire

[wanderingwoodlandslotro]

ꜱᴜɴʀɪꜱᴇ ᴀᴄʀᴏꜱꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱʜɪʀᴇ

❝ ᴀ ꜰᴀʀ ɢʀᴇᴇɴ ᴄᴏᴜɴᴛʀʏ ᴜɴᴅᴇʀ ᴀ ꜱᴡɪꜰᴛ ꜱᴜɴʀɪꜱᴇ. ❞ - ᴛᴏʟᴋɪᴇɴ

#lotro #the lord of the rings online #gaming #pc games #tolkien #lord of the rings online #gladden #middle-earth #the lord of the rings #the hobbit #the rings of power #gaming photography #gaming screenshot #virtual photography #virtual landscapes #landscapes #mmo #lord of the rings fandom #the shire #live like a hobbit #a peaceful life #sunrise #tolkien quotes