maven

₊˚.༄ daughter of ares♡

[voyaging-too]

People often say LOTR is a story about hope. (I'm reminded of it because someone said it in the notes of my Faramir post.) And that's true, but it's not the whole picture: LOTR is in large part a story about having to go on in the absence of hope.

Frodo has lost hope, as well as the ability to access any positive emotion, by Return. He is already losing it in Towers: he keeps going through duty and determination and of course Sam's constant help.

For most of the story, Sam is fueled by hope, which is why it's such a huge moment when he finally lets go of the hope of surviving and returning home, and focuses on making it to the Mountain. To speed their way and lighten the load, he throws his beloved pots and pans into a pit, accepting that he will never cook, or eat, again.

When Eowyn kills the Witch King, she's beyond hope and seeking for a glorious death in battle. It's possible that in addition to her love and loyalty for Théoden, she's strengthened by her hopelessness, the fear of the Nazgúl cannot touch someone who's already past despair.

Faramir is his father's son, he doesn't have any more hope of Gondor's victory or survival than Denethor does, he says as much to Frodo. What hope have we? It is long since we had any hope. ... We are a failing people, a springless autumn. He knows he's fighting a losing war and it's killing him. When he rejects the ring, he doesn't do it in the hope that his people can survive without it, he has good reason to believe they cannot. He acts correctly in the absence of hope.

Of course LOTR has a (mostly) happy ending, all the unlikely hopes come true, the characters who have lost hope gain what they didn't even hope for, and everyone is rewarded for their bravery and goodness, so on some level the message is that hope was justified. But the book never chastises characters who lost hope, it was completely reasonable of them to do so. Despair pushed Théoden and Denethor into inaction, pushed Saruman into collaboration, but the characters who despaired and held up under the weight of despair are Tolkien's real heroes.

(In an early draft of Return, Frodo and Sam receive honorary titles in Noldorin: Endurance beyond Hope and Hope Unquenchable, respectively. Then he cut it, probably because it was stating the themes of the entire book way too obviously, because this is what Tolkien cared about, really: enduring beyond hope. Without hope.)

Also, people who know more than me about the concept of estel, feel free to @ me.

[samwwise]

lord of the rings really was lightning in a bottle. it shouldn’t have worked but by god it did. peter jackson, who had no filmmaking education and was mostly known for making low budget splatter movies, had no business going out and changing the movie industry like that but he did. return of the king showed up at the oscars and became one of the most awarded movies of all time. to this day it holds the record for the highest clean sweep. hollywood will keep trying to recreate that magic with bigger budgets and high profile actors and they will keep failing. i look at the state of these blockbusters where everything is smoothed over by soulless cgi and actors are acting opposite tennis balls and they will never hold a candle to the pure heart and soul and craft of the lord of the rings. every single person involved in that project loved being part of it and it fucking shows. i’m so thankful the stars aligned the way they did for these movies to happen like that.

[anthraxofeffervescence]

The core conceit of Lord of the Rings is pretty funny. You are a twenty three year old in a suburb of Maine. The little bracelet in your grandpa’s attic has an inscription on it that is the password to the world’s entire nuclear arsenal. It is up to you to walk to the only hydraulic press in the world, located in Arizona, before the FBI finds the bracelet, kills you, and enslaves the suburb of Maine you currently live in

[mercining]

Sometimes, when the situation is absurd, I look at the invisible camera to break the fourth wall and address the spectators of my life

[mercining]

Sometimes, when the situation is absurd, I look at the invisible camera to break the fourth wall and address the spectators of my life

[beetmaven]

My dearest Keisha,

It has been so long since I wrote you a letter. I apologize for not being more present in your life recently. I got caught up in a lot of things and I often forget those who have seen every side of me or the different persons I have been. I don’t want to forget you, and I don’t want you to feel that I have forgotten about you. So today, I honor my best friend who is celebrating another year of a meaningful and long life. I am grateful to have known you so deeply and purely. I am honored and utterly thankful for your continued trust and for letting me in into your mind, heart, and soul.

For your birthday, I wish that you would see yourself in a more positive way—from a perspective that cannot be compromised by what other people would think of you. I wish you would be more gracious to yourself. More forgiving of your faults and more accepting of your flaws. No matter what you think of yourself, you will always be known to me as a genuinely wonderful, beautiful, capable, and clever girl who is beloved by many wherever she goes. I would say no man deserves you, but I know you lowkey want a man who would do his best to deserve you, so that’s also one of my many wishes for you for your birthday. I wish that you will stop thinking it’s your fault that nobody is making a move on you. Someday, a man will sweep you off your feet and he will catch you in his big, strong, unmarried arms and then you’ll look up and see it’s clark kent. lol okay lets chill out but the point is, there is a right guy for you and I hope you will have a little more patience and wait for him. Maybe he is still marinating. Maybe he is still securing his plane tickets to the Philippines.

Also, I wish that you will continue to grow in your course and career. You are graduating in a few, and I know that you are excellent in everything that you do, so keep it up and finish strong. I am so proud of you like genuinely I am so deeply delighted with your great performance in school. Please take this time to clap and give yourself a standing ovation. I will give you three seconds. Okay. I hope I can attend your graduation or celebrate with you. What flowers do you like? Oh my and after grad, you’ll have to find a real job maybe a year from now or less. I cant believe we are talking about this now. I am both weirded out and excited thinking about all the incoming changes in our lives and conversations! I think besides fear of the adult life ahead of us, there’s a hopeful sentiment in the way that we have come this far in our friendship. Again, thank you for sticking with me. I hope I will be there for all the important achievements and milestones you will reach in life.

Anyway, I love you so much, Keisha! You are truly my bestest best friend in the world. I hope and pray there is permanence in that statement. Happy birthday, dearest! To many more years!

With love that is sowed and nurtured,

Maven

@ashiekiki

[deedzreads]

when the author starts describing some fuck ass outfit that i’m supposedly wearing

[riverstoddtbh]

How I felt coming out of the theater just to go home and read fics of them

[beetmaven]

@ashiekiki we r literally so immature

[lastoneout]

like the first rule of cooking is to have fun and be yourself and the first rule of baking is to stay calm because the dough can sense fear

[officialunitedstates]

it’s quick, it’s easy and it’s free:  pouring river water in your socks

[evilscum-deactivated20160223]

why would i do that lmao

[officialunitedstates]

it’s quick, it’s easy and it’s free

[sassychaostrash]

[dukeofdelirium]

crazy how Smeyer’s mormon ass got away w writing a whole series of novels packed full of anti native racism and that the tribe she portrayed in her books are a real fucking tribe and that she tried to make the fanbase view the native characters as evil and dangerous and bad when the Cullens are literally rich, white, immortal and could fucking live anywhere on planet earth (including underwater cuz they don’t fucking BREATHE) yet they stay RIGHT next to the tribe which FORCES THE NATIVE BOYS TO SHAPESHIFT AGAINST THEIR WILL

she deadass wrote Edward casually thinking about committing native genocide and everyone saw that and was like “No biggie” and it’s literally a real fucking tribe she’s writing about… HELLO???

[beetmaven]

now okay what the fuck

[ilovebillkaulitzzz]

Me when y/n is acting like a little fucking child for male validation

[ashiekiki]

my comm@nder c0ck, my boboboyfriend, my heeyaw, my protector, but most importantly, my best friend;

I met you when you were clammy with sweat

A somewhat strange kid

My first interaction with you was when we took the final exam noong gr 7 tayo. You saw Angel and I and you said “Hala, magkapatid ba kayo?” with a confused ass expression on ur face, I replied with “Hindi noh, sa ganda kong to?” (tangina ang cringey mehn basta in a ganon way aq sumagot). Umalis agad aq bcoz I hate small talk and I knew it would end with that.

Me from the moon, you from the stars

U and i are opposites. We often argue bcoz i cant openly talk abt my feelings, whereas u are very vocal abt what ur feeling to me. You are confrontational (even when u tell me u arent, yEs u are) kinausap mo agad sila angel nung nagtatampo sila satin bcoz of the gala shit aNd i was just fucking hiding in the classroom. U let ur emotions get the best of u (scissors + yham = panic keisha). ur tiny im toL ahshahdahsdha

BFFs on one day, enemies on another

I just wanna understand

Hello, my alien

We are each other’s mystery (Yeah, yeah)

Is that why it’s even more special (Oh)

We shouldve kept count of all the times na di tau nagpansinan dahil sa tampo, selos, our stupidity, and our stubbornness. Pero I know we fight a lot cuz we love each other a lot, i mean u know i wouldnt get so worked up over u if i didnt care abt u, dba? Ive told u this so many times pero, iVE NEVER HAD A FRIEND LIKE U BEFORE. You are a mystery to me, idk why im so comfortable with telling u my secrets hELLO IM A SCORPIO IM NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SHARING MY SECRETS, pero u made me open up, and i have no regrets. One of the main reasons why i love u so much is because u never get tired of my shit. Tangina kung aq sau matagal ko nang sinukuan sarili q. U spent so much of ur time and money on me already, and so much of ur tears as well.

One day when this cheer dies down, stay (Ayy), hey

(Ayy)

Stay by my side

For eternity, keep staying here stay (Ayy), hey (Ayy)

Like your tiny pinky

Longer than numerous summers and cold winters

Longer than numerous promises and memories

I know this is very selfish of me, pero when im old i still want to feel the excitement to tell u abt some shit i find funny or a hot video of some famous guy im obsessing over. Idk if we’re still kpop stans pagtanda natin pero whether its u getting accepted somewhere job related, i wanna be one of the ppl you’ll think of calling first. I want u to still be one of the ppl i can lean on when im on the verge of giving up. Im not asking for eternity, just until we die hehhehhewhh

I remember our uniforms

Our memories are movies

The dumpling incident is a comedy movie yeah, ayy,

yeah, ayy

Heartfelt stories filling the school bus

Now we go out to drive together

Still the same, us of those days

Someday i hope we’re able to look back to the days when ung problems natin were passing a peta on time, or catching up to numerous cn’s. Ive had memories with u that feel straight out of a movie, like u pulling on my arm para di aq ung nasa side ng mga sasakyan, or that time sa bayan when u snapped at the kid for touching me, anD the dirty looks u give sa mga nagkagusto sakin. There’s not a single memory i can think of where di mo q napatawa o napangiti, even pag nagtatampo aq u always put a smile on my minecraft ass face. Tapos ung mga ateez mafia stories na ginawa natin na umabot ung kwentuhan natin hanggang sa finance and my dad fetched me na sdahdiuaf. I hope in the future, nothing will change.

The dreamcather in my room

7-year-long history

Is that why it’s even more special (Oh)

Ung pamaypay natin....na kay harry paren :((((((( Pero i promise u when i get it back, it’ll stay with me for longer than 7 yrs. Not only that, but the keychain u gave me from baguio, is still with me, the roses you DIY’d is in my makeup brushes’ cup, the ikon keychain which has almost been lost several times always found its way back to me and is still on my bag, the book u gave me nung bday q nung di pa tau close is still with me, ung ikon na we agreed na maganda sya for storing makeup brushes in di q pa ginagamit and is on display is still with me, ur letters are still with me. ung mga balat ng mentos at choco choco.........nasa basurahan na hashsdhah kaLa mo nOh,,,

I know everything about you

We gotta trust each other

Never forgot

More than the plain “thank you”

You and me

Decided not to fight tomorrow for real

One day when this cheer dies down, stay hey

You are my soulmate

For eternity, keep staying here hey

You are my soulmate

We know everything abt each other, down to who we fantasize abt and our darkest thoughts. I trust you with my whole being, mj. I struggle with it from time to time, pero always know na i trust u so much it scares me. I hope pag nagpasukan na maglessen na ung fights natin, i want to spend our time together acTUALLY being together not in silence and awkward glances ahdaha, pero i cant promise anything either,.,,,,. I truly believe u are the Crowley to my Aziraphale, my Ragnar to my Athelstan, my Homer to my Marge, my San to my Wooyoung, my soulmate.

Happy Birthday,

@hwang-kyojin

(im sori if nalate man to ng post, ive had this ready 2 days before ur bday pa pero di aq nagising kaninang 11:50 so ngaung 1:38 am nlng)

I may not have been the first to greet u, but im certainly the last 😎

[ashiekiki]

@beetmaven

BUHAY P B TUMBLR ACC M 🥹

i wanted to greet u on a reblog of one of my old bday greetings to u bc some of the stuff we wrote on it is HAPPENING n!!!!!!!!!! CRAZY!!!!!

we mentioned college, growing up, growing separately or independently, like 😭😭😭

mygod i even mentioned cla ragnar & athelstan (& im still obsessed w them to this day 😔)

THE POINT IS…ang dami nang nagbago sa buhay ntn but when i reread our posts & letters, they ignite the same emotions. our memories will live on thru timeless pixels & ink & i think thts so beautiful

one thing will never change tho—our tumblr tradition of greeting each other on bdays 😌

Happy Birthday!

a/n (HALA WHAHWHAHQ): i love u & i miss u & i always think abt ur safety over there but im always manifesting nmn tht nothing bad happens to any of my loved ones. pls acknowledge this when u read it kc i honestly dont know if u deleted tumblr n <33333 HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!

[beetmaven]

idk if ur still on tumblr but hehehe i read this as often as i can. love u and miss u!

[neitherofusideal]

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal (2013-2015)

Will putting Hannibal's hand on his waist

[beetmaven]

OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS LEVEL OF HOMOEROTICISM

[fearthhereaper]

there has never been and will never be a more devastating image than will resting his head on hannibal's chest, listening to his heart beat as he finally feels at peace

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal (2013-2015)