A skeptical red gecko

[katestewartt]

"I really tried to be, you know, not a cliche of a world leading woman that we all see, that you have to be harder than the others and tougher, and then you have to look a certain way. There are so many wrong things going on thinking about these women. So that was the first thing. And I think she really believes that the world is worth saving and that we can actually do it if we make an effort." - Sandra Hüller

[pocket-dragon]

strangers like me

(full version below cut)

[grickle14]

Twist?

[thekimonogallery]

Kimono by designer/artist Hiroko Takahashi.  Japan

[maureen2musings]

Cece, the guardian and protector of Dendera Temple, Egypt

bradflowerss

[thebluewizardsaregay]

apparently i’m a millennial woman

[alatariel-galadriel]

I mean, yeah, valid! but but but I also want to add on the fact that lotr AGGRESSIVELY rejects the “grimdark” and “gritty” settings that is so prevalent in fantasy (and also in general) right now, because I physically can not shut up about it

It is hope and love and compassion that saves each character individually, and because of that, the world. Frodo fails in the end, but his acts of compassion from earlier in the story save the day. And even as the world is saved, it is acknowledged that Frodo failed—without judgement, without blame. He fails, and he is still loved.

And like what can happen in the real world, he is still irrevocably changed by his trauma. But there is still hope—he has to leave, but he leaves with the promise of healing, and the promise that his ever-faithful Sam will follow.

Aragorn, Boromir, Frodo, Sam; each and every one of the characters are driven by their love of the people around them and their hope for the future. They cling to that love and hope throughout their trials, and that bears them through.

Of course people are watching it for comfort!!!! Lotr is eternally consistent in its promise, which Sam articulates so clearly in The Two Towers: “Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it’ll shine out the clearer.”

Things are dark and awful and terrible, but it will not be that way forever. That is the promise of LOTR. A promise of hope, and the reminder that it is love and compassion—for our friends, for our families, for the strangers we’ve never even met—that will save us in the end.

[great-and-small]

[draquus]

I just want to add, it’s not just that The Lord of the Rings rejects grimdark and gritty fantasy - The Lord of the Rings is the original. Grimdark is what you get when you reject the bright half of the eucatastrophe.

[nature-travel-photography]

"Frozen" Waterfall inside an glacier ice cave in Iceland [OC] - Author: Northlandscapes

[pmamtraveller]

By Benedek Chen

[oldpaintings]

J. Howell Russell (English, ?)

[everyday-cutephoto]

[ailithnight]

This is a worm? Or perhaps some sort of slug?

[marlynnofmany]

And it's gonna getcha

[steampunktendencies]

Oil on Beetle by Akihiro Higuchi

[narrativelydoomed]

@swshows Week: DAY 6: Favourite Dynamic - Disaster Trio/Lineage

"We'll be fine, as long as we stay together."

[nobrashfestivity]

Yoshida Hiroshi

Kanchenjunga (Morning), 1931

Kanchenjunga (Afternoon), 1931

Woodblock Prints

more

[ghostowlattic]

All in all you’re just another owl in the wall. 

[whirlwindwonderland]

@jathis

[jathis]

HAAAAAALP

[catchymemes]

[pro-gay]

people reblogging this talking about the english language. fuck the english language. the fascinating thing here isn’t how you pronounce it, it’s his amazing teaching skills. monolingual people be quiet for once challenge

[variiyenn]

finally made my own PHM gifs cause these two shots never fail to make me laugh, and neither of them having gifs yet was a crime SO here they are :3

[slaughter-kin]

Guillermo del Toro release me from this chokehold