Ride Eternal, Shiny and Caffeinated

Featuring Random Shit That Is Relevant To My Interests. Fair warning, I reblog a LOT, and am also generally terrible about tagging (though I WILL try to tag for common triggers). I am absolutely an anti-anti, in the sense that I fully believe that it is your job to be responsible for what you view, and no one's job to censor what other people write in not-for-profit FICTION. Not quite old enough to be your mom, absolutely old enough to be A mom, and I do not give two shits how old YOU are, so long as you are clear that you are responsible for your own internet safety and viewing. Ok? Ok.

[lukavyi]

Study

[seawhcre]

beautiful

[important-animal-images]

[freenarnian]

During my last re-read of The Lord of the Rings it really sunk in for me how often the protagonists encounter not only danger and betrayal, but unexpected help and friends in unlikely places. Tolkien had a sojourner's heart and said yes, we may be small, but be encouraged. Evil always tries to make itself look bigger than it is. Keep faith with ordinary goodness. Never underestimate the power of simply doing what is right and kind, against the convoluted machinations of evil. The gates of Mordor will not prevail against it.

[freenarnian]

During my last re-watch of The Return of the King it struck me how ugly and stupid evil is. Kudos to PJ and Co for not aestheticizing the baddies, even resisting the temptation to make Sauron sexy. The Witch King is scary but without substance, defeated by a depressed girl and her pint-sized bestie. The army of Mordor is huge in number but quakes at the sound of Rohan's arrival. They can't even keep a crown of flowers from forming around the fallen statue of a king, only replace his head with a dumb rock and scraps of rusty, twisted metal. The Dark Lord is powerful and dangerous, yes, but he's not all-powerful and he's not infallible. Even his great burning eye is focused in all the wrong places. He uses smoke and mirrors to impress and corrupt Saruman, and to drive Denethor to despair—Denethor, who could have welcomed home the King. (Instead, he wallows in grief, capitulates to fear, and grows bitter in grumbling over Rohan's presumed betrayal. Note how this parallels Gollum instilling suspicion and doubt in Frodo regarding brave and loyal Sam.) The enemy is a liar and a deceiver, and Aragorn knows this when he silences the Mouth of Sauron and says, “I do not believe it. I will not!”

And I want to emphasize this point, this rebuttal of Sauron's divide and conquer tactics: The Fellowship gets weakened. It suffers losses. It becomes scattered across the larger battlefield. But its members remain true to each other, and to their shared mission, even when they find themselves parting ways to accomplish it. At the end of the first film, Aragorn tells Frodo, “I would have gone with you to the end. To the very fires of Mordor.” And where is Aragorn, at the end of the last film?? The gates of Mordor, with the remaining members of the Fellowship (and some new friends, too), exactly where Frodo needs them to be at that moment. No one expects to survive, no one can guarantee victory, and no one but the audience sees the tiny bud on the Tree of Gondor, hope blooming in response to faithfulness even while the sky remains overcast and the city lies in ruins around it.

To repeat my previous tags: #I've said this before and I'll say it again #the devil WANTS you to feel overwhelmed and already defeated and like the small acts of everyday love and faithfulness aren't enough #but in fact each one is chipping another stone out of the foundation of his dark tower #and from your vantage point you may not see the people chipping stones on the other side (but they are there!) #you don't need an extensive understanding of architecture to bring it down #just the willing hands of a hobbit

I love these books and these films.

[loveridden1999]

doing things at the right age is literally a made up concept. you can start/pursue anything at any age. btw.

[loveridden1999]

remember remember

[strawberry-macchiato]

Day 48, 49

[junewild]

what i learned from 8 hours of shirtless men competing to star in a hallmark movie, december 13, 2025, in the washington post

i can't stop laughing tbh. i need everyone to read this

[shamebats]

Did they task the vampires with hanging up the flags 😭

[kooldewd123]

pokemon has given us a lot of fun takes on mundane life in the pokemon world over the years but "work-from-home pokemon trainer" has gotta be up there as one of my absolute favorites. sorry can you come in to the office today deborah from finance says she's supposed to battle you. yeah she says it's important.

[psikonauti]

Impalas on a salt flat in the Kalahari Desert, Namibia

Photographed by Solly Levi

[weiyuheng]

someone made a song about That One Staircase that's in every guzhuang drama ever so i translated it LOL

it's very rushed and i haven't watched all of these shows so idk how the official subs translated certain place names but i did my best

all errors are mine <3

source

[olderthannetfic]

What an earworm!

[government-cy-op]

Just found 2 copies of a 19th century naturalism magazine and LOOK AT THEIR LITTLE ICON

[memewhore]

[thicque]

so

this picture

had me absoLUTELY fucked the fuck up for a full entire minute until i scrolled to the next one and realized it's supposed to be put on like this

and had a full ohhhhhhhhhh okay moment

but for a full sixty seconds of my life i didn't even question it i was like yeah some straps are just that freaky deaky i love that for them whoever they are

[dee-the-red-witch]

[apofiss]

Free autumn goodies! ^o^ ...LINK!

[leafstranger]

I got professional cat show photos...

... at the CFA International Show in Cleveland, and I am CACKLING at Leo's (LaCatDolls Leonidas, blue lynx bicolour Ragdoll, Premier in CFA and CCA), because as @lazulisong put it, "When not even a professional can make you look like you have anything behind your eyes but air."

You get either "Neck, what neck? ONLY FLOOF."

Or O R B:

And in Gaia's case (these were paid for by her breeder for record purposes, as she Granded at the show and would have been a one-show Grand Premier if we hadn't shown her previously), you get...

... muffin-top:

or EPIC SIDE-EYE:

Actual pretty photos under the cut, but I can't help but giggle at the weird ones. The photographer was AMAZING at getting cats to pose and focus using toys.

Proof of why Ragdolls are used in so many product placement photos: because Leo had ZERO interest in the toys, getting him to pose was a pain in the butt until we realized we could just... arrange him and he'd stay there if it was comfy.

[songsofwaterandnight]

No, app on my phone, I don't want to edit it with AI. I don't want to generate with AI. I don't want to ask the AI. I don't want to make AI wallpapers. I don't want to rewrite with AI. I don't want t-

[innovadesexual]