A Beautiful Mess

I'm constantly all over the place. I live life to the fullest (or, at least I try to). I'm a writer, reader, and dreamer. I'm an artist. I'm a child at heart. I'm open minded and open hearted.

[writingsforwinter]

it’s safe to assume that at any given moment i want to go back to bed

[dependsoncontext]

[awed-frog]

thanks I hate it

[siderealsandman]

You Got a Friend In Horse 

[ithappensoffstage]

I think I’m b i s e x u a l

[stimman3000]

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[phyrexia]

Soup

[laszlos-deactivated20250927]

Hot hot soup

[catwithbenefits]

fuck if it’s this easy why do they close the goddamn road for like five months shit

[oppa-homeless-style]

all outta soub :(

[czechs-and-holdings-deactivated]

I work for the road crew in the summer. Crack sealing (the process you see above) is fairly quick and simple. (Though holding a hose that pumps literal tons of 350F tar into the road in the middle of the summer is NOT easy)

I think what a lot of people underestimate is just how much road there is in your city. And just how many directions the crew gets pulled.

For our city of around 50k people there are 8 of us.

Also, crack sealing is a wholly temporary measure, meant to slow the break-up of the roads, it’s not a permanent fix.

Roads tend to get closed for months on end because we have to tear the whole thing up, then, depending on the class of road, we either have to hammer-drill into concrete to lay rebar and the pour concrete, or we can get straight to paving. If it’s a road requiring concrete we’re required to wait at least 24 hours for it to set.

So after 2 days we’re finally able to pave. But the city allocates one (two if we’re lucky) 5 ton truck to transport material.

A relatively short paving job requires at a minimum of 60 tons. So that’s 12 trips to the asphalt factory and back. Each ton is around $80.

TL;DR

There’s a lot of road, not many of us, and soup is expensive.

[magnumpicactus-deactivated20230]

Leave the soup men alone.

[princessofbadassery]

Leave the soup men alone, and go vote for people who will pay for more soup and more soup people

[twitterlols]

[neuxue]

Okay I know we always go on about Marvel’s uncanny casting ability. 

But if you thought they were the only ones, let me draw your attention to this man:

Viggo Mortensen, aka Aragorn son of Arathorn, aka Sexiest Ranger in Middle Earth

would hike, often for more than a day, to remote filming locations, in costume, for the sake of authenticity

was the best swordsman Bob Anderson (swordsmaster/instructor for LotR, Pirates of the Caribbean, etc) says he has ever trained

occasionally writes poetry (more book!canon than film!canon but um hello)

does all his own stunts

lived all over and speaks about 23940209384 languages

you know that scene at the end of Fellowship when he’s fighting the Uruk-hai? And one throws a dagger at him and he hits it away with his sword? Yeah, the guy who threw it was supposed to miss, but accidentally threw it directly at Viggo. Who just casually Aragorned and hit it away. 

They actually cast Aragorn to play Aragorn

[obtrta]

Can I just add a few things?

Would randomly give chocolates to the hobbits

According to John Rhys-Davis (aka Gimli), whenever you have a large cast, one or two actors will naturally become the leaders. Guess who ended up in that role.

Single-handedly convinced cast and crew to camp out to shoot a scene in the sunrise

Once hit a wild rabbit with his car by accident. Promptly stopped his car and went to see if the rabbit was dead, needed a vet or if the only merciful thing to do was to finish killing him. The rabbit was dead. Viggo realized he was hungry. So he took the rabbit, made a fire by the roadside and ate it.

According to cast and crew, sometimes you’d just see him disappear in the middle of the night and suddenly he’d come back with fish he’d caught

Had his sword with him at all times. Slept with once.

The best horse rider of the cast, hands down. Rides better than lots of pros, according to a horse trainer. Couldn’t bear to part with his horse at the end of the shooting, so he bough him. The next movie of his also involved horses, and he bought his horse in that one, too.

Knows how to survive in the wild. I’m not kidding.

Hand-stitched a few things in his costume for an authentic “I live away from civilization” Ranger feel. Also told the weapons department to make him a small bow because “Aragorn lives in the wild, he needs a hunting bow, or he’ll starve to death” - literally nobody else had thought about that. Also requested a small stone to sharpen his sword. Suggested that Aragorn would take Boromir’s arm guards after his death. 

Speaking of hand-stitching, once he was touring Japan with a reporter for an article. Walked into a store, took a tshirt, bought it, cut off the print and hand-stitched it into the hat he was wearing. The reporter was going “?????????” the entire time.

Peter Jackson literally sometimes called him Aragorn by accident

[coutureicons]

sarah sanderson

[penny-anna]

Can tell Merry & Pippin apart, of course they can, what kind of question is that: Frodo, Sam

Could not initially tell Merry & Pippin apart but made an effort to learn their names & can now tell them apart: Aragorn, Boromir

Try as he might cannot consistently tell Merry & Pippin apart: Gimli

Can absolutely tell Merry & Pippin apart but pretends not to be able to: Gandalf

Cannot tell Merry & Pippin apart and not even trying: Legolas

[penny-anna]

where do merry and pippin fall on this spectrum

What do you mean you can’t tell us apart, I’m much taller??: Merry

“I’m Merry”: Pippin

[lesbianshepard]

the older i get the more i can understand why people back in the old fairytale days would just fuck off and be a hermit in the woods. just chilling out in the middle of nowhere and occasionally telling random heroes cryptic shit. living the fucking dream.

[ridleydaisy]

the curse of the black pearl vs at world’s end

[asuna-tan-deactivated20150626]

I love this because you have Elizabeth who couldn’t even defend herself in the first one to becoming this master sword fighter and leader of ALL pirates. You watch Will who was just this angsty little brat head over heels for Elizabeth become this grown man who faced all his demons.

and then there’s Jack

[sarahsupastar]

“Elizabeth who couldn’t even defend herself”

Do you mean…

Elizabeth who improvised a weapon when pirates invaded her bedroom

Elizabeth who could have run for the exits but instead went straight for the swords

Elizabeth who demanded to speak with a pirate captain and then used the leverage she had to get him to agree to her demands

Elizabeth who CAME AT BARBOSSA WITH A GODDAMN KNIFE and then fucking STABBED HIM when she couldn’t get away

Elizabeth who was trapped on a tiny island with nothing but crates of rum and a man she couldn’t stand and who used those supplies to summon a rescue party for herself

Elizabeth who made a rope out of sheets and climbed down the back of a ship to save the day herself when no one would listen to her about how dangerous the pirates were

Elizabeth who snuck onto the Black Pearl, knocked two cursed pirates straight off their ship, and rescued Jack’s entire crew

Elizabeth who rowed straight back into danger without any backup instead of running away with everyone else

Elizabeth who came to Will’s rescue with a blunt object and a one-liner

Elizabeth who proceeded to team up with Will to take down all the remaining pirates in the cave

Elizabeth who – without being asked or told what was going on – faked unconsciousness to create a distraction for Will’s rescue of Jack

Elizabeth who stepped in front of a ring of muskets, successfully protecting Jack and Will from being shot or captured

Elizabeth may have learned some impressive sword tricks in the later movies, but she was a Badass from day one.

[muldertorture-deactivated202104]

preach

[katiethecumberbabe-deactivated2]

Elizabeth Swann is a queen.

[deadmomjokes]

[sasstastic-turtles]

‪Essays I've written that had absolutely no business scoring as high as they did‬

- A literary analysis claiming that Jekyll was gay and strongly insinuating that Hyde was his drag persona‬ ‪- 500 words on how Despacito has changed the American music industry (in Spanish)‬ ‪- Literally didn’t even write an essay just turned in a picture of that scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail where the cartoon angels are playing the trumpet w their asses - We were supposed to make a ‘diary’ from the pov of a character in Romeo and Juliet. I chose to write as a gay servant who was hopelessly in love w Romeo and plotting to murder Juliet. It’s entirely handwritten w my left hand and stg every single word is spelled wrong. One page just says ‘today I saw a geese’. There are no fewer than 6 thinly veiled sexual innuendos.

[shakclebolt-deactivated20240919]

McGonagall: Mr. Black, why are you still here? I dismissed class ten minutes ago.

Sirius: Minerva, I’m contemplating what life really means, you know. I’m wondering whether we really have a purpose.

McGonagall: …

Sirius: …

Sirius: Plus, James glued my ass to my chair…

[oh-glasgow]

Oh, aye? Because that worked out so well for him before.

Fuck Donald Trump!

[anotherhawk]

Well, if he visits Scotland it’ll save us the journey to go protest….

Fuck Donald Trump

[awellboiledicicle]

Please send him to Scotland. don’t let him back, someone just sink him in a bog

[anotherhawk]

Okay, but ‘bog’ is slang for toilet here, particularly really disgusting public toilets, so….aye, that works.

[awellboiledicicle]

Even better

[princesselliyora-deactivated201]

Let’s just throw him intae loch Ness and let Nessie have at him.

[oh-glasgow]

Nessie is a beautiful animal, and I would not want her to eat anything that is 20% bigotry, 20% stupidity, 30% narcissism, and 30% McDonald’s.

That is dangerous to anyone’s health.

[finehoney]

im so ready to be in a relationship so whenever the universe is ready hmu with a keeper

[finehoney]

i posted this yesterday then today this cute boy held my hand and now he is sending me memes

[librarydvd]

Reblog for love

[maobeedong]

i reblogged this yesterday and my crush kissed me today

[sooyounglovebot-deactivated2018]

@shootingshidae

[solarwoos]

life update: i’m not saying this worked but something happened literally the day after i reblogged this

[nsfwkgirls]

omg i reblogged this yesterday and today a cute girl messaged me and i’m 💖❣💟💕🌸💓😚💕

[cowboysuggest]

spiders. IN the tub, spiders in the tub. Come on now, SPI DERS IN THE TUB! SPIDERS IN THE TUB!

[animatedamerican]

I can only assume this is meant to be chanted to the rhythm of “uptown funk you up, uptown funk you up” but I cannot begin to speculate as to why

[patrickat]

Stop! Wait a minute.

Why my tub got these spiders in it?

[did-you-know]

Giant tarantulas keep tiny frogs as pets. Insects will eat the burrowing tarantulas’ eggs - so the spiders protect the frogs from predators, and in return the frogs eat the insects. Source

[bogleech]

This has blown my mind for years. It’s so unreal. It’s almost the same exact reason humans and cats started living together.

Tiny frogs are tarantula housecats. A science fact seldom gets to sound that much like meaningless word salad.

[sir-p-audax]

This is legit, guys. And I’m excited about it.

[fedoraspooky]

Someone needs to draw a tarantula person with a tiny pet housefrog now. Please let this be a thing.

[rapid-artwork]

How is this?

[nightkunoichi-deactivated202111]

This entire post is magic.  And that is so cool how the Tarantula will protect the frog.  :3

[weloveshortvideos]

[carebearpikachu]

Hi, I’m Barbie ™ - Vine by Sarah Mangone

is she actually barbie

[elfgnostic-deactivated20170427]

I THOUGHT SHE WAS LIP SYNCING BUT THEN

[yourboymax]

I DIED