Clare tumbling

wheeeeeeeeeee

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[hail-dondus]

Finding out Hans Zimmer is a transphobe genuinely had me falling to my knees

[cartoonistfreak101]

Thank you blastybaku for explaining this!/gen

[poetry-protest-pornography]

If you've ever heard a movie score and thought "holy shit, this is incredible", there's like, a 50% chance it was Hans Zimmer who composed it.

This is a pretty major letdown, ngl.

Anyways, fuck transphobes, which includes Hans Zimmer, apparently.

[biestcallisto]

Klaus Badelt is the composer of Pirates of the Carribean score. Dont know a thing about him, but he's not Zimmer.

[liminalsgayses]

Hans Zimmer is also at the head of Remote Control Productions which is a film score company under which many people have worked for, and he notoriously surrounds himself with composers and has often co-composed things with others and somehow always grabs the main credits for.

He has worked with the whole array of composers, from John Powell (How To Train Your Dragon, Kung Fu Panda which yes was co-composed.) to Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek, this one co-composed with John Powell).

There are incredible other composers out there which have clearly influenced his work and those deserve the credit just as well, if you need of another reason why you maybe don't want to trust the guy who owns Hollywood Film Score City.

[iliothermia]

i wish everyone following me made enough money to not feel like they were being boiled alive and had the time and energy to clean their room at their own leisure

[gooberjam]

call your representatives to urge them to vote against further funding for ice. this is a very easy process through 5calls and it takes 2-3 minutes. you are almost guaranteed to leave a voicemail so please don’t feel nervous or stressed about it, this is something that could make a difference. all you need to do is put in your zip code and the site will provide a script and the numbers for your representatives.

[gooberjam]

the deadline is january 30th and it’s good to call frequently if you can

[owlyjules]

Wisptober Day 15 - Around

"As the fox skull lay decaying in the tall grass, the spectres of dancing rabbits could be seen rejoicing around it. "

[insomniac-arrest]

I don’t think any movie will make me feel the same ethereal sense of otherworldly sorrow and disembodied awe as that scene in Lord of the Rings where the loyal son is sent off into a doomed battle to please his vindictive father while Pippin sings a mourning song of his people

I was like 12 and high off this shit

[lotrlocked]

These movies CHANGED ME

[jaskierxyennefer]

This is one of my favourite parts of the whole trilogy. It’s haunting.

[ink-splotch]

And that Pippin takes actually a happy walking song of his people, because Hobbit songs are generally happy and about food and drink and gifts and things, and *transforms* it into a mourning song.

The song is from Fellowship, before all the heavy plot hits and they’re still in the Shire. It’s about walking, and how eventually all the bad things that scare or sadden you will fade away and you’ll be home warm by the fire.

And Pippin takes it, changes the lines, the key, and sings a song that is truly fit for Denethor’s great hall.

[fiddlepickdouglas]

Knowing Billy Boyd gave his own melody to it and everyone had chills after hearing him sing it. This is how you get actors involved with the story and character, this is how amazingly well these films were cast. Fans have been singing that haunting tune in echoing halls and caves and towers for 20 years now and it never loses its beauty.

[moonybyte]

Home is behind

The world ahead

And there are many paths to tread

Through shadow

To the edge of night

Until the stars are all alight

Mist and shadow

Cloud and shade

All shall fade

All shall

Fade

[photogirl894]

And even better: Billy Boyd composed the tune to the song and then performed it for Peter Jackson and everyone else while filming. They only did one take! That very first take is the one that’s used in the film! He’s just that good!!

[freenarnian]

Every now and then I like to pull up this video of Billy Boyd being endearing and silly and choked up about Boromir’s death scene, and then performing this song upon request:

[theoriginalsuki]

I sing it as a lullaby to my children but I use the original “away shall fade” to make it less sad because they’re just babies. uwu

[prismatic-bell]

Not even my fandom and I have chills.

[prismatic-bell]

You know what, I’m not done. Every aspiring writer should watch that scene and keep in mind the axiom “every person is the protagonist in their own mind,” because Denethor and Pippin are having TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT CONVERSATIONS.

Here’s the translation of how it goes.

WHAT DENETHOR SAYS: can you sing, Master Hobbit?

WHAT DENETHOR MEANS: I want entertainment and you’re from far lands. That’s a novelty here.

WHAT PIPPIN HEARS: I don’t care that I just sent my son to his death. Entertain me.

WHAT PIPPIN SAYS: yes. Well, well enough for my own people. But we have no songs fit for great halls.

WHAT PIPPIN MEANS: yes. But not for you. And our songs aren’t for people who engage in such cruelty.

WHAT DENETHOR HEARS: yes, but I’m embarrassed because mine are simple folk, and you’re very grand and regal. There’s no way I could be of any use to you.

WHAT DENETHOR SAYS: and why should your songs be unfit for my halls? Sing me a song.

WHAT DENETHOR MEANS: we’re all equals culturally. I’m a benevolent ruler, I don’t think your songs are inferior to those produced by my skilled musicians. Let me engage with your culture.

WHAT PIPPIN HEARS: I have literally already forgotten about my son. I’m more interested in entertainment and food, things you normally adore and which I’m making a mockery of by my actions. So sing to me songs of those things you love, entertainment and food. My son doesn’t matter to me and shouldn’t matter to you.

And then Pippin sings.

WHAT DENETHOR HEARS: what a pretty little song.

WHAT PIPPIN IS SAYING WITH THE SONG: fuck you for doing this to your son, who I love. Fuck you for doing this to me, as I mourn. Fuck you for making a mockery of the things I love, when it’s clear you don’t care for them any more than you do for YOUR SON. Your child, who you should want to protect. If you won’t mourn in these halls, by everything I hold dear I swear SOMEONE will.

Pippin can’t say any of this out loud. But his word choices are extremely deliberate. And so are Denethor’s! He does not see himself as a bad person! I don’t know enough LOTR to know if he’s a villain or just an asshole, but the important thing here is HE THINKS OF HIMSELF AS NEITHER. He’s a good guy who’s had to make some hard choices, that’s all. It’s the editing that tells you he’s not actually that at all.

This is a MASTERCLASS in “everyone is their own protagonist” and if this is the standard the movies rise to all the time I understand why y’all love them so much, because holy shit. That’s incredible.

[none-ofthisnonsense]

@lotrheritageposts

[lotrheritageposts]

LOTR Heritage Post

[antimasculist]

at work: i could be cooking and cleaning and coding and reading and working out and weaving tapestries and playing video games and climbing a mountain and having sex and filming a movie right now yet they keep me trapped in this prison. idle hands are the devils plaything and i am being forcibly molded into his perfect conduit. i must break free, seize the day and waste not the beauty inherent to finite mortal life

at home: my one true passion upon this pointless earth is bog mummy imitation

[herssian]

"there is no way you're not using chatgpt for at least a few things here and there no matter your stance on it" what the FUCK are you talking about

[allykatsart]

[xavantina]

Murderbot + Onion Headlines [1/?]

[splendentgoddess]

FOR PARENTS OF YOUNG KIDS IN THE US!

Someone over on bluesky posted this and I figured I'd better repost it here. It's the pre-RFK 2025 vaccination schedule for babies and young children, ya know, just in case it mysteriously disappears. Save this and give it to your child's pediatrician; tell them this is the schedule you want your child on.

[splendentgoddess]

Got a hold of the older children/teen and adult versions of this chart. Vaccines for everyone!

[leebrontide]

You all may be sick of me banging on this drum but I got whooping cough in my mid/late 20s because I had no idea I needed an adult booster and I coughed so hard I broke my rib. And guess what? Then I got to keep coughing that hard, but now with a broken rib.

Please get your boosters.

[catmask]

i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

[catmask]

this also goes for aesthetic or -core titles. 'y2k tank top' is going to get you resellers and fast fashion brands advertising to people looking to meet a current trend. 'thin strap crop tank top' is going to get you a diverse group of results and not upcharge you to hell and back

additionally, shop second hand when you can, second hand and thrift sites typically organize clothes by the cut and color. theyll be more affordable than a depop seller curating you a style to sell you

[daftpatience]

useful terminology for different kinds of clothing shapes :)

[mypoisonedflowers]

I think i may have reblogged this before, but it's so useful I'm gonna do it again just in case, lol

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

huh. so i just found out "Torment Nexus" was invented for that one specific meme. i genuinely thought it was from an Orson Scott Welles novel. my ignorance is an unending source of surprise and delight

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

um. Orson Wells. H.G. Scott Welles. H. George Orson Orwell. Philip Bradbury. stop making me keep track of white men names

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

in my defense all of these are separate individuals famous within classic sci-fi circles:

H.G. Wells

George Orwell

(George) Orson Welles

Orson Scott Card

at some point this is not my burden

[paperjoshi]

You're gonna laugh when you learn what the G in H.G. Wells stands for.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

[by-ilmater]

if people were to take communion based on you, what would your body and blood be? mine would be bourbon and a spicy sweet chili dorito

[wizardarchetypes]

it is funny having a big heavy purse bc people who don't carry bags are always like "god what do u even have in there" and then every time you hang out they need something that you have in there

[cadaverkeys]

the semantic drift of the term "liminal" genuinely pisses me off and i know its petty. LIMINAL IS A TRANSITIONAL STAGE BETWEEN TWO STATES- OR. IF WE WANT TO WIDEN THE BOUNDARY HERE. IT COULD BE ON THE VERY EDGE OF BECOMING SOMETHING ELSE. just because something is abandoned doesn't mean its liminal. in fact, that shopping mall was MORE liminal when it was dying off and shutting down outlets every month than it is 5 years later when the space is fully abandoned.

[quietwingsinthesky]

unfortunately once you start noticing the tendency of some sci-fi to flatten every character into ‘ambiguously atheist’, the implication that the only future is one where no one has any religious beliefs is going to piss you off for the rest of time

[quietwingsinthesky]

literally 90% of the responses to this post are going Uhm Ack-tually, There’s Too Much Christianity In Fiction. i am fucking begging you to consider that there are literally any other religions besides the one you, personally, have beef with that may be interesting to explore in fiction.

[aluria-sevhex]

okay so i typed an entire rant in the tags and decided it was to important to leave in the tags so now it's a rant not in the tags:

once i started researching Judaism and stumbling across the concept of cultural Christianity in the process, this started to annoy me, because ultimately the atheism you see in a lot of the Western world still tends to be shaped like Christianity because Christianity likes to pretend it's just about belief when religion is much more complex than that.

this isn't an inherently bad thing it's just the way things work, and it's something that a lot of ex-Christian atheists have to unpack and be aware of otherwise we start being fucking assholes to religious minorities. all religion is deeply intertwined with culture in ways that go beyond theology and into things like practices, ethics, etc. in some ex-Christian atheists you can see this reflected with attitudes about how nobody should be religious because it's bad and indoctrinating children, statements that can be eerily similar to Christians trying to convert people to save themselves and their children.

all this is to say that if your 'enlightened' future has no religion, then you're saying that a lot of cultures do not belong in the future.

...and again. in the West the atheism of this media still often reflects Christian worldviews and ethics. this point plus the previous point result in a really fucking nasty implication, in which Christian atheism has effectively wiped out all other human culture.

i don't think people in the future are magically going to all stop being religious and instead be more logical. all of history has had people finding meaning in the divine, and this includes scientists. attempting to remove religion outright means you are removing what is a fundamental aspect of the human experience for many people

[casualfruit]

if your 'enlightened' future has no religion, then you're saying that a lot of cultures do not belong in the future.

[turquoisemagpie]

The Voice in the Night

(Part 1)

The Voice in the Night

(Part 2)

The Voice in the Night

(Part 3)

The Voice in the Night

(Part 4 - end)

[carnackiardent]

A very cool adaptation of the short story by William Hope Hodgson!

I copped my username and blog title from his series of occult detective stories about Carnacki the Ghost Finder, but Hodgson was probably best known for nautical and horror stories, of which "The Voice in the Night" is both. It may be one of his best-known stories - it also inspired the Japanese horror film Matango.

This comic is very cool and really captures the atmosphere of the story.