Cosimo Galluzzi
shark vs the universe
Andulka
trying on a metaphor
KIROKAZE
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d e v o n
Product Placement
sheepfilms
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
Not today Justin
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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JBB: An Artblog!
JVL
pixel skylines
Keni
ellievsbear
Love Begins
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@a-consulting-timelord
The world needs more queer stories
Queer books, queer movies, queer video games, and please, queer characters who have a personality other than being queer! This is why when I write novels and short stories, I only write queer protagonists.
This is a phenomena known as crown shyness ☘️✨🍃
Two trees, chilling in a forest, five inches apart cus they’re not gay
if people called you a “weird kid” when you were little there’s a 90% you ended up gay
This is scientifically accurate.
Straight people think that either you know you’re gay from childhood or something big happens one day and you Realize (and it is like that to some of course) but lbr for many it goes like
I’m straight
No I’m bi
Wait am I biromantic ace?
No I’m definitely bi
…I may not be bi
Am I straight after all? Am I ace??
Maybe I’m demi??? Who knows
I might also be aroace…
Fuck it I’m pretty sure I’m queer
or whatever
Can we romanticize video games the way we do books?
Like you hear all these things about how you can curl up with a book on a rainy day and drink tea and smother yourself in blankets but anytime you hear things about video games it’s always about how you’re wasting your life away yelling into a headset as you play Call of Duty in a basement?
Imagine bundling yourself up on the couch, the sound of rain hitting the roof, and putting on Fable for a few hours. Or getting home after a long day of work. You make yourself a cup of cocoa, put on fuzzy pjs, and play Viva Piñata for hours not giving a second thought to the outside world. Semester just got out? Throw on some Fallout and just take a night to breathe and enjoy.
You aren’t wasting your life away, you’re enjoying it. Games can be just as much an escape as books, except you get to be part of the story.
I realize this is not new information to anyone, but what struck me so hard this time I read the Lord of the Rings was the sense of melancholy. Like it’s painfully obvious to the reader that this world is Not As It Once Was. All of the characters we meet reference this feeling of loss in one way or another.
The elves are the most obvious - with their fading light and their ships sailing away. Treebeard talks about how the woods aren’t as they once were, about the ents who are falling asleep and withering to nothing. The dwarves lust after the glory of their forefathers, be it in mountain fortresses or caverns of mithril - now empty and echoing. Old Tom Bombadil remembers a race of great men and women, reduced simply to trinkets in cold tombs.
And even men, the race set to inherit this new age, even they are experiencing this sense of melancholy, of losing hold of something great. We see their great cities reduced to rubble on riverbanks, or possessed by evil. Aragorn longs to return to his throne to restore the glory of ages past, to somehow rejuvenate that which is dying in the race of men.
And hobbits? At first we see them as living in the present, with no great glory of the past to tie them down. Yet when Frodo returns to the Shire, it is…Not As It Once Was. And I think while the other hobbits are able to shake off this feeling and return to their love of life and the present, maybe Frodo’s true burden is to inherit this sense of loss from the rest of Middle Earth.
And what makes Lord of the Rings (and Tolkien) so extraordinary, at least to me, is how there is still so much hope in the story even with all its sadness. Hope is literally Aragorn’s childhood name, given to him at a time his House is all but finished. Hope is what drives Gandalf and leads his way when others of his order become distracted and give up their purpose. Hope appears to Sam when he and Frodo trudge towards what seems to be their end in the fires of Mount Doom. Hope is there at dawn when Rohirrim arrive at Minas Tirith and blow their horns, and they ride to defend the City of Kings, though they know what they are facing. In fact, for me some of the most brilliant moments in the story are those when hope appears in the middle of darkest despair. Tolkien writes like sadness and hope are merely the two sides of the same coin.
One of the many things I love about the world Tolkien created is the exquisite beauty that rises from sadness; lesser stories would transform sorrow and grief into bitterness, but in Tolkien’s world, it becomes a force for pity and wisdom and love. Some of his best and wisest characters are those who have known great sorrow. Melancholy and sadness are a part of Arda Marred, but like Gandalf says: “not all tears are an evil.”
Perhaps my favourite quote from Tolkien is Haldir’s line from the Fellowship of the Ring, when the company is nearing Lothlórien:
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
“Just trust your gut”
Pal I have anxiety, my gut is literally always telling me to abort mission
It’s a good way to start
Tricky Tricking
“For the last time, Potter, this is not a date! I’m literally walking you to detention right now!”
Life is Strange cosplay. Still looking for tweaks to make to Max.
Chloe + getting the girl she likes to kiss her
#life is strange
*flexes fanart muscles* time to make girls kiss
#life is strange
"The government is being run by a toilet."
I just needed to share this with… you know… the world.
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You can purchase all the porn I’ve drawn in a easy-breezy PDF complete with NSFW text RIGHT HERE! Peens for charity? You bet your sweet ass!
Johnlock Porn for Charity is exactly what it sounds ilke. 50% of earnings will go toward relief efforts around the globe. Currently, Hurricane Harvey. The charity I am donating to is the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund.
The PDF contains eleven NSFW (18+ ONLY) Johnlock porn arts. Please purchase and share responsibly. And thank you for your support!
This Porn for Charity is going to remain up forever so even if you can’t afford it right now, you can purchase it next week, next month, next year, next decade. Totally flexible. The charity may change, however, over time. Message me if you have any questions!
$5 is a steal for art of this quality, quantity, this level of emotional connection between the characters, plus the ficlet, PLUS the sheer amount of RIMMING that you gave us, @anotherwellkeptsecret ! It’s fabulous and I hope you raise a ton of money for Harvey relief!
Thank you!
#is Johnlock Porn going to show up on my bank statement receipt though? LOL
I HOPE SO! And thank you, thank you! <3
i can’t believe friday, september 1, 2017, is nineteen years later. the last scene in the harry potter books.
this is it.
