Deal With It

Yeet my whole life.

[fishfingersandscarves]

dad of the year

[ardentlyyang]

With the number of just generally very awful dads Tolkien writes, it makes me wonder for his childhood.

[ardentlyyang]

Look I recognize there are many #problematic things about tumblrlive or whatever they choose to call the garbage, but the real issue is that they have placed a button which produces a pop up which makes me, a Gen Z with attention issues and lack of confidence, MAKE A DECISION, before I can go back to doomscrolling in my wasteland of garbage memes where there used to be a SEARCH button so I could find *specific* garbage memes.

[cop-disliker69]

[sprachgefuehle]

“That sounds like a good idea…….”-“Is there something bothering you with the idea?”-“No, the idea is GOOD…..🙂”

[biteswhenprovoked]

Can someone explain this to me?

[cop-disliker69]

Old people use quotation marks to indicate emphasis, as a substitute for italics (which many of them could not produce on the old typewriters they learned to write on), whereas young people use them to indicate sarcasm or falseness. They’re used as “scare quotes”.

And old people use ellipses simply to indicate a pause, or for some other incomprehensible reason I’m not aware of. But young people use ellipses to indicate passive-aggression.

So an old person could type something like:

how are things going with your “boyfriend”….

and what they mean is

How are things going with your boyfriend? [Im so excited for you, sweetie, and I wanna hear about it]

But a young person would interpret that sentence as

How are things going with your so-called boyfriend…. [I say, while seething with contempt for him and possibly for you too]

[kaispeakshermind]

The linguistic difference across generations is beautifully explained here thank you

[thethirdtreeofvalinor]

elrond sipping his tea: how nice of you to join me for breakfast, thranduil. it’s certainly been a while hasn’t it. you remember bilbo, the hobbit from like seventy years ago? he has a kid now. i know you would just love frodo

thranduil:

thranduil: elrond, where’s my son

[softgrlfriend]

that’s enough emotions for a whole year. ciao

[insertchaoticenbyname]

The earlier in the year you reblog this the better it gets

[galadrielspeaks]

aragorn: *at the council of elrond* well thank god that gollum is in mirkwood 👍

legolas:

[galadrielspeaks]

LMFAOOOO

[itsrainingshadybitches]

[blizzardofjj]

I don’t use this but might be for someone out there who does, check it out?

[ms-demeanor]

Here’s a pretty comprehensive write-up:

https://www.diabetesdaily.com/blog/you-can-get-cheap-insulin-at-walmart-without-an-rx-in-some-states-576008/

[aviculor]

reblog to save a life

[caenith]

It's always been so funny to me that the Council of Elrond is literally just a meeting of people who have showed up in Rivendell with different problems and just happened to do so at more or less the same time. They didn't gather there to discuss the Ring, the future of the Middle Earth or the rise of Sauron.

Nope. Each of them have faced An Issue and decided to ask Elrond for help.

Poor Elrond. He managed to avoid the kingship, but not becoming a parent figure for almost everyone in the Middle Earth.

[myfantasymusiclove]

[confirmance]

*Mutual reblogs something you posted*

Me: They still like me. Thank God.

[kazoosandfannypacks]

reblog this post to let the mutual you reblogged this from know that you still like them

[slimetony]

biggest regret is not getting in more car accidents

[solardivulger]

me when im about to die in a plane crash

[iamnotlanuk]

My old person trait is that I think a website should work in a web browser and not try to open an app

[mommy-mortis]

My old person trait is I think video games should work without needing access to the Internet

[thepariahcontinuum]

My old person trait is that I think when I purchase a product, that it should be complete and functional and also that I should actually own it.

[literary-potato]

So we’re all just ignoring Tumblr Live right? Like not make eye contact and hold very still until it goes away?

[artofdyingslowly]

how do you tell someone “i’m not ignoring you i’m just disconnected from reality right now and the days are all blurred together and i feel completely apathetic towards everyone/everything around me so it’s really hard for me to maintain a conversation” without saying that

[scrumptiousangst]

Brain broken. Still like you. Talk later

[tolkien-feels]

I feel like Bilbo would teach the elves of Rivendell the concept of a mathom with the express purpose of oh so politely asking them over dinner how were the Silmarils not a mathom

[tolkien-feels]

Random Feanorian elf inherited by Elrond: That's not... No.

Bilbo: Oh so they were useful?

Elf: Well. No, not exactly

Bilbo: But the owners didn't want to throw them away.

Elf: Yeah

Bilbo: And they were in possession of several people over the course of years.

Elf: Yeah

Bilbo: That's a mathom.

Elf: No! We loved them because were very pretty!!! And one of a kind!!! Crafted by hands more skilled than any of ours!!!

Bilbo: Yes, like my great aunt's set of painted dishcloths

Elf, in tears: The Silmarils were not like your great aunt's set of painted dishcloths

Bilbo: How's The Great Mathom War as a title for a poem about the First Age?

[tolkien-feels]

By the way, it's important to me that Elrond supports Bilbo's claim and finds it quite insightful actually

[irlwakko]

this is by far my favorite safety/warning sign btw. they really went off with this one

[ri-rawr-isnt-ok]

No cuz I fucking love this sign. It’s not an actual barrier so it’s not like some sort of challenge it simply says “fuck around and you will find out”

[irlwakko]

Ohohoho I LOVE “fuck around and find out” signs, especially the really dramatic and ominous (but true) ones

(Context for the last one: it’s a WWII era sign posted around the soldiers’ washroom mirror, warning them to never discuss military plans in places where civilians could hear them and report back to the enemy, e.g. in restaurants and pubs in the country. “Loose lips sink ships”.)

I also love these two, which I would place in the category of “You already fucked around, now you’re about to find out.”

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

Aerated water is fucking scary. It's water that has a fuckton of gas in it, which reduces the buoyancy to the point where you will immediately start to sink if you fall in.

[muffymuffymuffy]

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

smartphone storage plateauing in favor of just storing everything in the cloud is such dogshit. i should be able to have like a fucking terabyte of data on my phone at this point. i hate the fucking cloud

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

this is gonna make me sound very Old Man Yells At Cloud but i just hate how many things in my life assume i will always have access to a quick, reliable internet connection and almost cease to function without it. Obviously certain things Have To Have An Internet Connection, but i want to be able to listen to music if my service is bad. i want to still watch movies if Netflix is down. i want to have a working map when i can’t get a cell signal. nearly every tech product these days bears the fingerprint of the extremely internet-rich places they are developed, high rent offices in Seattle, San Francisco, etc.. I think often the idea of the internet not being available is so remote to them it doesn’t even factor in to development. i remember when the Xbox One was debuted and Microsoft was almost mockingly like “if you don’t have reliable fast internet, then don’t bother buying this”, and there was such backlash they completely went back on so much of that. But now that attitude is just the tech norm.

[skunkes]

On a lighter + adjacent note i love dis tweet + these QRTs of it ^_^... literally...