Lost and Loving It

talk nerdy to me

[hcnnibal]

a patron requested hannibal and will on a beach 🏖

[ironychan]

I submit to you that the most iconic feature of any animal is either unlikely or impossible to fossilize.

If all we had of wolves were their bones we would never guess that they howl.

If all we had of elephants were fossils with no living related species, we might infer some kind of proboscis but we'd never come up with those ears.

If all we had of chickens were bones, we wouldn't know about their combs and wattles, or that roosters crow.

We wouldn't know that lions have manes, or that zebras have stripes, or that peacocks have trains, that howler monkeys yell, that cats purr, that deer shed the velvet from their antlers, that caterpillars become butterflies, that spiders make webs, that chickadees say their name, that Canada geese are assholes, that orangutans are ginger, that dolphins echolocate, or that squid even existed.

My point here is that we don't know anything about dinosaurs. If we saw one we would not recognize it. As my evidence I submit the above, along with the fact that it took us two centuries to realize they'd been all around us the whole time.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

XKCD

[un-rare-deactivated20151106]

let’s stop seeing sex as the biggest thing you can do to show someone you love them

[huntinthedwellin98]

everyone knows that the real way to show someone you love them is to find them a really cool rock. not a diamond. just a neat rock that you think they will enjoy

[anonymoussong]

[elvenkingtranduil-deactivated20]

Not a rock THE  ARKENSTONE 

[glorfy-the-bright-haired-ellon]

Why just one rock Why not three Why not the silmarils

[mondknight]

#i’m pretty sure there’s an entire book on the topic ‘why not silmarils’  (x)

[desidesidesi]

And one on why not the arkenstone

[cakeisnotpie]

You’re right. Just get them a ring.

[bcfurs]

[theepolynesian]

Everyone once in a while this makes an re-appearance on my dash and it’s great

[conleches]

some fucking resources for all ur writing fuckin needs

body language masterlist

a translator that doesn’t eat ass like google translate does

a reverse dictionary for when ur brain freezes

550 words to say instead of fuckin said

638 character traits for when ur brain freezes again

some more body language help 

[leepacey]

[overthinkinglotr]

LOTR’s concept artists designed the films as a “journey back in time”

So (according to the concept art book) as the Fellowship travels deeper into Middle Earth, the places they pass through become inspired by progressively older periods of history. The farther along you are in the story, the more ancient the design influences

We begin in The Shire: which feels so familiar because, with its tea-kettles and cozy fireplaces, it’s inspired by the relatively recent era of rural England in the 1800s

But when we leave Hobbiton, we also leave that familiar 1800s-England aesthetic behind and start going farther back in time. 

Bree is based on late 1600s English architecture

Rohan is even farther back, based on old  anglo-saxon era architecture (400s-700s? ce)

Gondor is way back, and no longer the familiar English or Anglo-Saxon: its design comes from classical Greek and Roman architecture

And far far FAR back is Mordor. It’s a land of tents and huts: prehistoric, primitive, primeval. Cavemen times

And the heart of Mordor is a barren lifeless hellscape of volcanic rock…like a relic from the ages when the world was still being formed,  and life didn’t yet exist

And then they finally reach Mount Doom, which one artist described as 

“where the ring was made, which represents, in a sense, the moment of creation itself”

[potctrilogy]

#and that’s what you missed on Pirates of the Caribbean!

DEAD MAN’S CHEST (2006) dir. Gore Verbinski

[hayden-christensen]

Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN dir. Alfonso Cuarón | released June 4, 2004 Cinematography by Michael Seresin

[gaysie]

depression or whatever is soooo embarrassing oops i ruined a large chunk of my future because i just didn’t feel like doing anything for a while . Epic Cringe babe...

[jedi-anakin]

STAR WARS: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)

STAR WARS: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

[glumshoe]

“influencer” is such a sinister title. it’s got all the menace of “royal adviser” but none of the raw sex appeal.

[green-alien-sings-pompeii]

whenever I hear "influencer" I think of this

[phoenixwrites]

[hylialeia]

we all have a limit to the bad things characters can do until we're not comfortable liking them but tbh some of you are just super fucking boring

[claudiaapologist]

[overfalls]

[niqabisinparis]

i think emotional growth is really about realizing that your feelings are just that - feelings. not facts. not predictions. not omens. and you come up with a formula on how to deal with each kind. because life moves on and so do you. 

[shitpostinguniverse]

[majorsamcarters]

[azzandra]

Me, when a sci-fi introduces a desert location: SHOW ME THE WORM

*giant sand worm burst from the ground*

Me: YESSSSSSSS

[thepleasuregoblin]

Concepts like sex magic and fertility deities in fantasy are actually really interesting to me as a person with a lot of interest in anthropology and mythology like Yes I am curious about the weird sex that elves have but its pretty much exclusively explored by authors who are Weird Horny Dudes and forget about putting that stuff into a d&d campaign

[datanazush]

Oh we’re talking about sex in fantasy settings are we?

[thepleasuregoblin]

Oh, famed fantasy author Ed Greenwood! So good to see you, we're having our panel down here in my wine cellar,

[datanazush]

WAIT I HAVEN’T FINISHED TELLING YOU HOW THE DROW MATRIARCHS DISCIPLINE THEIR UNRULY MALE CONSORTS

[bogleech]

This is funny and I don't even know who that is