A Complete Disaster @animeniac69 - Tumblr Blog

The great thing about huge declarations is that the most times you're ever going to have to deliver on them is ONCE. And even that is vanishingly unlikely. The dishes happen every day. My feet hurt now. The kids need a lift to piano lessons every week. The grenade is hypothetical.

hellolovelyscientist

The grenade is hypothetical.

biglawbear

I finished reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time in my life. With all of *vague gesture at everything* this going on.

I Am Not Okay

biglawbear

You have to understand. I watched the movies maybe once as a kid when they came out twenty years ago. I've somehow avoided learning like anything about these books my entire life. Literally everything about these books was a complete unknown and surprise to me. Totally blank slate going on. I barely even knew how it ended.

Holy shit.

biglawbear

Frodo didn't complete his task. Sam literally carried him up Mount Doom. And when he got to the end, he couldn't throw the Ring away.

But for Gollum biting it off with his finger, it wouldn't have been destroyed.

So Frodo's journey saved the world nonetheless.

And it broke him.

It was too much for him to bear. He could no longer live in the Shire or live in Middle-Earth. He wasn't of the world anymore. He had to go to the Undying Lands.

He took on the task that no one else would. He saved the world. Everyone got a happy ending. Aragorn became King, Sam rebuilt the Shire, Merry and Pippin became heroes. They all lived in renown.

But Frodo had the hardest task of all. No one else would do it. A simple hobbit who came by the Ring by chance. Not a King, not an immortal. Not a wizard. No power save his will and his friends. And he did it and saved everyone.

And he never got to rest. He never got to remain in peace. The task destroyed him. It was too much.

But there was no other way. Nobody but a simple hobbit could bear the ring all the way to Mount Doom and resist its power so long. Not a man, not an elf, not a wizard; they would have succumbed. Gandalf knew this, which was why he chose the hobbits in all his designs.

It's amazing that one of the precedent setting works in the fantasy genre holds up so well because it subverts what ultimately became the genre's core tropes. The hero was not the King, or a chosen one. In fact, the hero not being the King was a key point that allowed Aragorn to distract Sauron and allow the task in the first place. The hero was someone unassuming but courageous, who did the thing because no one else would, even though it was just by chance he came upon it.

But Frodo couldn't resist the Ring completely. He wasn't superior to anyone else in that way. And in the end it left him broken. The burden crushed him. No one else could do it, and in the end, he couldn't either. He wasn't so special that he was invulnerable.

I'm not okay. Holy fuck you guys.

biglawbear

It's been a week and I'm still not over this, I'll never get over this.

Something that I've been thinking about, as I struggle with depression and anxiety and *another vague gesture at everything* is that LOTR does not criticize Frodo for being broken. It does not shame him or deny him what he needs.

The task was too much and it broke him and that's okay. His friends nonetheless take care of him and let him go with understanding. The book doesn't treat it as a bad thing.

This seems to be a theme throughout the books. The characters rest and heal. They spend time recovering in Rivendell, Fangorn, Lorien, Ithilien. It's treated as good and necessary. They don't heroically endure endless torment from the second they set out until they're done.

And in Gondor's march from Minas Tirith to Mordor, Aragorn recognizes that some of the very few men he's taking with him don't have the heart to go to battle against the Enemy. And he says that's okay. He gives them other tasks the they can do. They hold other strategic points. They aren't shamed for not going all the way, or kicked out, or told that they aren't manly or whatever. Their limitations are recognized and respected. The task was too big and it was okay that they couldn't do it.

I don't know man. I've held on through some absolutely crazy shit. White knuckled through mental health crises when my doctors were begging me to take a break, to go to the hospital before I hurt myself. My therapist has tried to slow me down and tell me that I've been going through it and it's understandable that I am feeling some kind of way. Even one of my colleagues remarked that I've had an absolutely fucking wild career and that I've seen more as a lawyer of seven years than she has as a lawyer of forty. But I've gotten it into my head that I have to be strong, I have to be independent.

Fuck me, man, I'm currently white knuckling through life and hanging on by a fucking thread. A few weeks ago I was about an hour away from checking myself in to a mental health facility until my best friends swooped in to help me. And then I went right back to work.

And then I read this book. This fucking brilliant and beautiful book written by a man who had seen the horrors of war and spilled it all over the page. And I read it for the first time as an adult with full understanding and experience of what it all means. And it hits me like a fucking truck.

And it says that you can't endure everything. That at some point you need to rest and heal. That if you take on too much you will break. And that all of that is okay.

How am I supposed to move on with my life after reading this?

three--rings

Certainly there are many messages within Lord of the Rings, but you have to think that Tolkien would have been happy that this message in particular was still being conveyed all these years later.

hellofromtheshadowrealm

ICONIC

professor-doc-emeritus

I worry that the omnipresence of ygotas and just ygo shitposting in general will mislead some less informed viewers into believing this is a little fan joke/edit. He actually said this. This is canon dialogue for kaiba that Eric Stuart was paid money to perform.

bloodstainedmuzzle

Resident Evil 4 Remake (2023) Leon S. Kennedy [ 1 / ??? ]

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cassassinated

I miss the days when, no matter how slow your internet was, if you paused any video and let it buffer long enough, you could watch it uninterrupted

mythicalwashrag

useful-info-haver

If you use Firefox, you can go to the about:config page, search for "media.mediasource.enabled" and double click on it to set it to false. After you restart Firefox, all youtube videos will load entirely even when paused! This also affects other streaming websites :)

gotitforcheap-deactivated201611

*Italian guy throwing a blogger into a trash compactor while smoking a cigar*

there’s ya friggin’ man crush monday ya fucking computer idiot

peach-foxgloves

I have been looking for this post for YEARS.

beinggigantic

did u guys see the deer with the ribbon

beinggigantic

this one did u see it

beinggigantic

did u see this

somecunttookmyurl

i can tell i’m sleep deprived bc i just made myself cry about tutankhamun and i have, like, negative interest in the kid

somecunttookmyurl

have now made the rest of the discord cry about this little boy who had multi-coloured ducks sewn onto a tunic that he loved so much he wore it to a Very Important Event because he was EIGHT and have you SEEN my DUCKS

somecunttookmyurl

sorry no i’m not done i’m gonna make you all cry some more i’m bringing you down with me

there was once a little boy.

he is born disabled. his body hurts, and he can’t walk properly the way the other children do. he doesn’t understand why. he’s a little boy. but he plays with wooden boats and pulls toys on a string.

somebody makes him a tunic. they sew ducks onto it in red and green and yellow and blue. the bright colours of a child.

the little boy is eight years old, and he’s going to be king now. there’s a big ceremony about it. he doesn’t really fully understand what’s going on, because he’s eight, but he wears the tunic with the brightly coloured ducks for the occasion because he loves it. look at his ducks! aren’t they great?

he is a child. the adults around him manipulate and coax him to gain more power for themselves. he still plays with toys.

as a teenager, not yet an adult, he fathers children. they do not survive. he’s not even old enough to have full agency in his job and is still being manipulated, but he had babies and they died.

he does not make it to his twenties. at eighteen or nineteen years old he dies, and is buried. his babies, so tiny, are buried with him.

and so is his tunic with the little ducks that he loved so much he kept it long after it no longer fit.

there was once a little boy.

somecunttookmyurl

yeah i think that like. especially with historical figures in your mind people who were kings and queens or important nobles were adults. even if you know how old they were it doesn’t really click. it doesn’t seem real

but then you get something like a little tunic with brightly coloured ducks on it and it hits you like a fucking truck that this really was a little kid and no matter how far removed you are a little kid is still a little kid. their brains didn’t develop any quicker back then. he was just as developed/mature mentally as any 8 year old now. he had cartoonish animals on his clothes and he played with toy boats and probably terrorised the local cat population.

tutankhamun was a child and he didn’t make it to adulthood because he was unfortunate enough to be a very important child

his dad died when he was 8. he saw his own babies die when he was still just a boy himself.

but he had brightly coloured little ducks on his favourite shirt, and he kept it.

somecunttookmyurl

and he did not just keep the duckie shirt either

tutankhamun had a little pair of sandals with ducks on them. he had earrings decorated with ducks. he kept those, and other items of childhood clothing. some toys. keepsakes. things he loved, and treasured. he kept them all in a little wooden chest. the chest… was carved with ducks.

and that little duck chest, filled with things he kept from his childhood, was buried with him. maybe he was keeping them for the little babies who did not make it. maybe they just reminded him of good days and fun times.

but he was a little boy who thought ducks were just the best

somecunttookmyurl

WITH PLEASURE

(greyscale makes it hard but the duck head is on the right above the toe strap. always takes me a while to find it too)

beggars-opera

quasi-normalcy

Conversation that Tumblr is not ready for:

A Vampire's fangs are also it's reproductive organs

autumngracy

I scrolled past that before realizing op was being literal and not just making some kind of weird joke

plateauofmemories

Oh please, "the penetration of the vampire's bite as metaphor for sexual penetration" is like, horny classic vampire symbolism 101 🙄 Taking this to the next level of "vampire bite as literal reproductive penetration" is a conversation Tumblr is thoroughly and uniquely prepared for and one that we will all severely regret very shortly

gothiccharmschool

Oh, I’m ready to be a spectator for this conversation. I’m ready.

feluka

the first time i played ace attorney i was so hyped and confident like oh i’m gonna nail this so good i love murder mysteries and then when the first trial started and the first ever question was ‘what is the name of the defendant’ i laughed out like like lol this is even easier than i though. a child’s play. i got this. what a pathetic question. but because english isn’t my first language and i’m still unfamiliar with many words, i assumed defendant=person who defends and with 100% confidence i selected ‘phoenix wright’ as an answer and everyone was like. phoenix you fucking dumbass loser you’re a disappointment to the legal system you shit for brains. and my self confidence has never recovered since

feluka

you’re laughing. my client/childhood friend just got found guilty of murder because his lawyer doesn’t know what his job is called and you’re laughing.

nyahgust

straight guys are absurd. i once asked one if they’d kiss a boy for $50,000 and they said no. at that point it’s not even gay it’s just the best option

it-is-a-perfect-world-and-we-are

fysportsanime

skater · coach · choreographer

victor nikiforov

jumpingjacktrash

can’t stop thinking about montero

ok on a superficial level, it’s another ‘toxic’ – a fun, horny, catchy song on the age-old theme of “this relationship is not healthy but wow the sex is good.” even if that was all it was, it would still be political because he’s gay, he’s black, and it’s implied that his lover refuses to acknowlege the relationship in public because of that.

but then you take context into account and it gets real fuckin deep.

like the fact that montero is his own name. “call me by your name” but the title of the song is his name. every character in the epic video is played by LNX himself. he is the innocent creature in the garden AND the serpent that seduces them. he is the council of blue-haired haters, the fluffy pink barbarian they condemn, and the arena of golems that stone him to death. he is the soul ascending, the angel welcoming; the soul descending, the devil indifferent.

like the fact that he’s been very vocal about clapping back to people telling him he’d go to hell, and in the video, he goes to hell, assassinates the devil, and takes over.

this is not just a bop, my friends, this is Art.

but it’s also a bop. just sayin.

roach-works

yeah i was thinking about it today, how like…such a big part of homosexual desire, especially young homosexual desire, is twisted up with how you don’t know if you want to be someone or be with someone. they’re you, they’re what you want to be, they’re what you want to have, they’re what you’re too scared to touch. your love and desire is also fear and shame is also hope and ambition.

like, of course Lil Nas plays every role in the video but satan, and of course satan doesn’t even look at him. it’s all him, all of it is him: what he wants and who he is that’s wanting and being wanted. he’s doing it to himself, with himself, for himself.

like, he’s going to hell and the devil doesn’t even smile and nod. he’s going to hell because he sent himself to hell. he’s going to hell because he might as well. he’s going to hell to shove his dick right in the devil’s face and the devil still doesn’t even care, and so he’s going to kill the devil and rule over his own empty hell himself. it’s all him and it’s only ever been him.

anyway, i loved it too. it was brilliant.