[musicofthe-ainur]

Am I the only person who thought this was really fucking funny

[eleemosynecdoche]

A lot of the really funny moments in Lord of the Rings come from Tolkien playing with language like this, where we have relatively formal, archaic, “high” language responded to with informal, modern, “low” language. 

[modernclaire]

another hilarious example:

[lotrmusical]

my absolute favorite example of tolkien switching registers in this way is

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

[eschatolegation]

That’s, like, what the hobbits are for. Tolkien uses them to punctuate and deflate his own saga-riffic language and ground things back to a modern audience.

[carnivalseb]

the word for this shifting of registers for comic effect is ‘bathos’, if anyone wanted to know

[jabberding0]

Wei Weaving is a Chinese artist

[nepharim-tree]

[frediyerushalmi]

Okay, but the runs in her stockings! She starts out with beautiful, clearly new stockings, and then over the course of the video they get shredded, then there's a close up on a scrape on her leg that looks like it's from a wire - oh there's themes there!

[redstonedust]

ship dynamic idea what if theres was a woman,.. . and. annother. woman........... together....r....

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

they killed him for this

[swordtit]

the best thing you can do to a character make them averse to touch and absolutely starved for it

[ruinedchildhood]

[probuccalfat]

these women did wonders for the “i’m single and i like it that way” community… i’m having a sexy ass life!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[hollywolly3000]

Can you take your violent J tweet out of my home office its taking up a lot of space

[bacony-cakes]

DESTROY CENSORSHIP!!!!!!!

[flareonfloof]

ok that's an improvement but it's still in holly's home office

[dragongirltongue]

I sent the post to wet dry world is that better?

[hollywolly3000]

oohhh.h. its soggy now oooh,....... .. . . you soggyed it.......

[samcormac]

what’s the rush?

[rainwasheseverythingaway]

The time will pass anyway

[importantcatpics]

[homunculus-argument]

The Odyssey but retold as a low-stakes modern adventure of one guy out with his girlfriend leaving the bar with his buddies to do just one (1) simple thing real quick, it'll take like 15 minutes tops, he'll be right back, but then some bullshit happens and the trip keeps getting more complicated as more bullshit keeps happening while he just tries to get back to the bar because he promised his girlfriend that he'd get back and he knows that she's still there because she told him she'd wait there.

And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and

[thekijs]

His girlfriend had been fending off the 5 drunk guys for most of the evening by explaining that even if she was going to ditch her boyfriend, she can't possibly leave without finishing her beer, which she is keeping perpetually full via careful sleight of hand where she's just pouring it back and forth into and out of the pitcher.

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.

That buys her another hour or so and then, finally, her boyfriend makes it back. He looks like shit, hair down and just a mess, he's wearing an entirely different jacket that he got from an alley, and barely recognizable—especially to 5 guys who've been drunk for hours now. He lurks for a minute, finds out what's going on, and proceeds to pull off the trick shot first try. Throws the jacket off, fixes his hair with a hair tie his girlfriend lends him, finally looks like himself again, and THEN beats the shit out of them with the pool cue.

[weaselle]

yuh i was there, that's how it happened

[betweenheroesandvillains]

petition to make Americans google “euro” before writing fic

[supportive-snapmaw]

If you can roll up a coin you deserve to snort coke imo

[ghstbusting]

tag credit to @teashoesandhair

[dknightlight]

Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

[belairbottom]

@muzizmu

[pleasantlygrimm]

good for him. this man had a vision and he made it happen. homie hiked into the desert, changed into his sluttiest armor and positioned himself just so in front of a blade of grass to hide his shlong.

I yearn to be able to live with this kind of whimsy.

[kuromisgh0st]

we should all be living with this level of dedication and whimsy !! 🗡️

[yellow-cat]

ok u can lay there i guess. since you look like a plushie out of a washing machine

[yellow-cat]

[hbmmaster]

did you know? the phrase "named after" doesn't technically state anything other than the order in which two things were named. I was named after snoopy

[hbmmaster]

michael jackson was named after mickey mouse

[hbmmaster]

the nintendo wii was named after wwii

[boringkate]

You listen to music regularly? Why? Have you even tried quitting? Could you quit? You get music stuck in your head? Wow. You're so ruined and music brained. I bet you make your partners listen to music with you when you have sex. Music addiction has really ruined a whole generation. You know it's not realistic to expect reverb in real life, right? You're probably so desensitized that you don't even feel anything anymore when you hear a bird singing that it wants some fuck.

[paradigm-adrift]

I don't have a problem with people listening to music per se, but I do have a problem with the music industry exploiting & mistreating artists.

Personally, I abstain from all music in order to keep my hands clean but really music should just be illegal outright to protect musicians from abuse.

[terramythos]

holy shit this person in the notes

[rontology]