Sméagol and the Gift
'Now!' said Sam. 'At last I can deal with you!' He leaped forward with drawn blade ready for battle. But Gollum did not spring. He fell flat upon the ground and whimpered.
'Don't kill us,' he wept. 'Don't hurt us with nassty cruel steel! Let us live, yes, live just a little longer. Lost lost! We're lost. And when Precious goes we'll die, yes, die into the dust.'
Devastated by this. Just a little longer, he begs. Even though his existence is a torment. Even though the will that holds him to life is barely his own anymore. He has long outlived his time but it's such a cruelty that now the only freedom for him is in death. I'm glad Sam didn't kill him but the whole scenario is awful.
When a mortal keeps a ring of power he does not gain more life, he continues, denied natural mortality as the fear of death is amplified and twisted into fear of separation, nothing matters anymore but the keeping, the continuing. In that miserable existence there is no peace, and at its end there is no graceful goodbye to life, there is only dust. Sudden, empty, and final.
It would take murder to spare him that. Or falling with the ring into the fire.
Bilbo let it go in time (did he feel anything when it was destroyed?) Frodo is freed of it now, though the toll it extracted for the separation was at very least a finger. It was too late for Gollum for the price to be anything other than it was, and that's brutal.
If you live long enough, death is no longer the enemy. What Sauron did to Gollum ensured that it would always be the enemy, to be feared and avoided for ever, once time and the ring had fashioned it into the only escape left. Evil.
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Updating Wren's reference document and this dude is just going to blow away in the wind at this point he's so short and light
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oh god it's really really bad forever
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Happy disability month!
Today I learned that the average life expectancy of autistic people is 36!
Part of the reason for this is that autistic people have a much higher suicide rate than non-autistic people!
So happy disability month to all autistic people! To autistic people who are officially diagnosed and to those who are self-dx! To those that are visibly autistic and to those who are high masking! To nonverbal autistics and to those who experience selective mutism and those who are hyberverbal! To those that need to live in a care facility, to those that need to live with their parents, too those that live with their partner(s), to those that are able to live on their own.
I can keep going on. We're all different but we're still all struggling. Take care of yourself!
To those who are not autistic, support your autistic friend/family member/partner
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no you have no idea how much this means to me you have NO IDEA
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im going to end up homeless
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who the fuck designed these new arb cards
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was gonna make a joke post a thing analog horror until i realized the mandela catalouge existed
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idk what happened but i hope you are ok and that your day gets better
im doing a lot better now, thank you!!
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i’m gonna throw up that was the most stressful experience of my life
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80s music is good but maybe i need to listen to indomitable human spirit 80s music and not jaywalk on a busy highway 80s music
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me, as a child: I have a completely normal childhood and my parents never physically punish or yell at me when I accidentally break something
me, now: *is living on my own and breaks a cup*
me, now: *feels like the scum of the earth and my mind jumps to considering harmful coping mechanisms*
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"Chara is an evil mass murderer" shut up shut up SHUT UP SHUT UUUUPPPP
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Ya know when people told me "when you're finally safe enough that you can leave survival mode and start to let go of and process your c-ptsd/trauma things are probably going to get really, really bad before they slowly start to get better" I thought that was reasonable. I did not understand that by "things are going to get bad" they meant "you're going to find yourself in the worst mental state of your entire life, but dw, that means it's working" and tbh I simply wish someone had been more clear.
Edit: If everyone could please take a minute and think about what it must feel like to be struggling and then have multiple strangers say to your face that they find the prospect of going through what you're going through so horrifying that they'd rather kill themselves and then stop leaving comments like that I would greatly appreciate it.
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shit like this is my 13th reason
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