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[factumnihil]

"the trauma made you kind" fuck that. no. i am kind because i cannot allow anyone to go through what i did. i am soft because i chose to be.

[peculiar-persephone]

Trauma made me scared, angry, and vulnerable.

I made myself kind.

[attainablerecovery]

[tamorapierce]

“Scared is how you’re feeling; brave is what you’re doing.”

— Emma Donoghue (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[ithelpstodream]

[smitethestate]

Fuuuuuuuuuuck thank you I’m just gonna put this in my pocket to use for the rest of my life.

[twinsfawn]

[omghotmemes]

But… that’s none of my business

[trevenanl-deactivated20200913]

SICK of thinking! Won’t be doing that again

[kiandra-layne]

make me choose;

↳ @lovelythingsn asked: aragorn or frodo

[sdgdgsjsgjsjsgjsg]

The best possible response

[positivelypastelpink]

[wrotten]

Yes hello 911 I am stuck in the past

[first-son-of-finwe]

I’ve realised that what I miss about fantasy is it being truly escapist. I miss it depicting places where I would actually want to go.

Every dang kid I knew waited for their Hogwarts acceptance letter. Reading the books and seeing it on screen gave you this warm, fuzzy feeling and a feeling of longing, even when they were in danger and fighting monsters and evil wizards, you want to be there.

You want to go to Middle Earth, see hobbits and elves and dwarves and run through this land of incredible beauty, mysticism and magic.

You want to be in the TARDIS, seeing the universe.

The more recent trend of fantasy is this gritty, dark realism and places where you would just never want to go. I don’t want to go to Westeros. I don’t want to be in The Hunger Games, I don’t particularly want to be in The Witcher universe. I’m living in the world of Black Mirror and I hate it.

Fantasy used to say “hey our world kinda sucks but here’s a cooler one”, but now it says “hey our world kinda sucks, but here’s an even worse one.”

That isn’t to say that the above are bad. They’re not. 

But I miss beautiful, escapist fantasy that gives me a break. That takes me somewhere magical, somewhere otherworldly and gives me messages of hope and optimism in the face of darkness. I really, really miss that.

[vardaelcntari]

As a great man once said, “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory”. If I want to live in a world full of injustice and suffering, I can just watch the news.

[militant-holy-knight]

Same fam tbh.

[barbarian15]

“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which ‘Escape’ is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it”

J.R.R. Tolkien

“[M]y friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, ‘What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and most hostile to, the idea of escape?’ and gave the obvious answer: jailers.”

Quoted by C. S. Lewis. "On Science Fiction"

[whitepeopletwitter]

[theladyeowyn]

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Rumi (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[stinkylittlegnome]

hmm ok so in the two towers the narration strictly changes from frodo’s pov to sam’s pov, and we continue to see things from sam’s eyes from there almost to the very end of the return of the king, and i have 2 theories of why that might be:

Theory 1, plausible but not very funny: during the two towers frodo begins to get corrupted by the ring and would therefore be unfit as a narrator. through sam’s pov we can see from an outside perspective how frodo gradually changes, which is a very important part in his character development, and from frodo’s pov that wouldn’t work. perhaps frodo also loses himself to the ring more and more and sees himself more from an outside perspective than from an inside, bc of the ring’s corruption. this theory is further supported by the fact that we go back to frodo’s pov after the ring has been destroyed

Theory 2, funny but not very plausible: frodo was the one that wrote the fellowship of the ring and sam wrote the two towers and the return of the king. when frodo gave sam the red book at the gray havens and said that the last pages were for him, he actually meant like, 800 pages,

[stinkylittlegnome]

@quendians this is the same dude who procrastinated leaving his house for weeks after learning that satan’s servants were out to kill him and he had to flee the country

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

The way you make people feel is your reputation.

Eugene Gess Man (via onlinecounsellingcollege)