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izzy's playlists!
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“The TransFemme and the TransMasc Dyke Share the Same Bed”
probably my fav drawing I’ve ever done I think - also the quote is based on @sweatermuppet ‘s “the homosexual and the transsexual share the same bed” cause I just loved it too much
and they were butchfemme!
acrylic paint on canvas, 90x80cm
idk why so many people are blocking me just for asking for their help...I don't want to be rich; I want to raise the money for my father's heart surgery and buy medicine for the scabies that has plagued my family
My mom told me to use the internet to ask for help , but no one ever shares my posts and donate to me
My father will die without surgery.
My father will die without surgery.
My father will die without surgery.
My father will die without surgery.
My father will die without surgery.
My father will die without surgery.
Please donate here or via PayPal
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If anything happens to my dad, please remember that I begged you to donate, even a small amount, or to share my post. I will not forgive anyone who sees this post and doesn't support me with a single word or a small donation
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Fully back in it. Making playlists for Frodo and Sam (which somehow in previous bouts of lotr fixation i’d never done). They have few songs in common, which seems to me a good sign, but one that i feel really does belong on both is “this love will carry” (Dougie MacLean). Haha ow ow ow.
It's a thin line that leads us and keeps a man from shame
And dark clouds quickly gather along the way he came
There's fear out on the mountain and death out on the plain
There's heartbreak and heart-ache in the shadow of the flame
But this love will carry, this love will carry me
I know this love will carry me
The strongest web will tangle, the sweetest bloom will fall
And somewhere in the distance we try and catch it all
Success lasts for a moment and failure's always near
And you look down at your blistered hands as turns another year
This love will carry, this love will carry me
I know this love will carry me
These days are golden, they must not waste away
Our time is like that flower and soon it will decay
And though by storms we're weakened, uncertainty is sure
And like the coming of the dawn it's ours for evermore
This love will carry, this love will carry me
I know this love will carry me
sometimes you guys call characters comphet lesbians in a way that makes it clear you’re just uncomfortable with bisexuals existing
!!!
Not a female character, but me when Sam/Frodo shippers Good Luck Babe-ify Rosie. Like, he loved his wife! They were together for decades, they had a bunch of kids!
He can love them both at different times and in different ways!!!
i don't think there's anything wrong with being a lesbian who doesn't want to date bisexual girls. it shouldn't be as offensive as it is
I mean, it’s a valid choice and sapphic bisexuals need to respect it. However, some of the reasons (“she’s been tainted by men”, “she’s going to cheat on me”) *do* show a negative bias and I don’t think it’s out of place to point it out.
“I’d rather date another lesbian because they align more with my experience, we understand each other better regarding men,” OK cool.
“If a bisexual girl even talks to me she is wasting my time/she’s definitely going to leave me for some guy/she had a d*ck in her last week and I can’t see past that,” straight-up biphobic talking points that will likely get brushed off as a mere preference.
no ur right i 100% agree. it definitely stems from misogyny and this is not what i meant with my comment.
OK, great! 👍🏻
Unfortunately some of the more hostile attitudes can get shielded by the “respecting preference” argument, but a reasonable boundary about who you date (i.e. a genuine preference) is obviously not offensive at all. I’m saying this as a bisexual myself.
i don't think there's anything wrong with being a lesbian who doesn't want to date bisexual girls. it shouldn't be as offensive as it is
I mean, it’s a valid choice and sapphic bisexuals need to respect it. However, some of the reasons (“she’s been tainted by men”, “she’s going to cheat on me”) *do* show a negative bias and I don’t think it’s out of place to point it out.
“I’d rather date another lesbian because they align more with my experience, we understand each other better regarding men,” OK cool.
“If a bisexual girl even talks to me she is wasting my time/she’s definitely going to leave me for some guy/she had a d*ck in her last week and I can’t see past that,” straight-up biphobic talking points that will likely get brushed off as a mere preference.
literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.
Reblogging this with these tags because oh my goodness
To the person I reblogged this from THANK YOU i am now going to stick this on my pinboard where I’m gonna see it every single day
“Life is long and beautiful if you make it so”
What if we had a fantasy movie where all the characters were women? And only 4 men. It's so strange how easily we accept that all stories are about men
A touch of divinity
my gift for @ pedernalesfalls for fandom trumps hate <3 this was so fun to paint!
I wish I could be as sarcastic as Thomas More defending Erasmus from William Tyndale's allegations.
...save for lack of a little salt. I have not contended with Erasmus my darling, because I found no such malicious intent with Erasmus my darling, as I find with Tyndale. For had I found with Erasmus my darling the cunning intent and purpose that I find in Tyndale: Erasmus my darling should be no more my darling. But I find in Erasmus my darling that he detests and abhors the errors and heresies that Tyndale plainly teaches and abides by and therefore Erasmus my darling shall be my dear darling still. And surely if Tyndale had either never taught them, or yet had the grace to revoke them: then should Tyndale be my dear darling too. But while he holds such heresies still I cannot take for my darling him that the devil takes for his darling.
References
Schuster, A., Marius, R. C., Lusardi, J. P., & Schoeck, R. J. (1973). The Complete Works of St Thomas More, vol. 8, pt. 1. Yale University Press.
hmmm, if only thomas more had a friend like that… 🤔🤔🤔
“Please bear in mind, as you read my declamation, that I did not compose it but merely threw it off as a recreation within a very few days. At the same time I request you also to compare it with More’s, and in this way judge if there be any difference in style between two authors whom you used to describe as so similar in mind, character, outlook and pursuits that, you said, no pair of twins on earth could be more alike.”
— Erasmus to Robert Whitford, May 1, 1506. [x]
“I have always enjoyed my memories of you when we have been parted from each other, as much as your company when we were together, and I swear that nothing has brought me more pleasure in life than companionship like yours.”
— Erasmus to Thomas More in the dedication of Moriae Encomium, June 1511. [x]
“We are ‘together, you and I, a crowd’; that is my feeling, and I think I could live happily with you in any wilderness. Farewell, dearest Erasmus, dear as the apple of my eye.”
— Thomas More to Erasmus, October 31, 1516. [x]
“You would hardly believe, my most lovable Erasmus, how my affection for you, which I was convinced would admit of no addition, has been increased by this desire of yours to bind me still closer to you, and how forcibly I exult in the glory of being so highly valued by you. […] I am entirely free from vainglory, and yet, to tell the truth, this is the one itch in the way of ambition which I find impossible to shake off, and which tickles me in a most agreeable manner, when it comes to my head that distant posterity will remember me for my friendship with Erasmus, attested in letters and books and pictures and every other way.”
— Thomas More to Erasmus, October 7, 1517. [x]
“From the fragment of the letter I am sending to you, you will learn what happened to the Bishop of Rochester and Thomas More—a pair of human beings that are England’s holiest and best possession. When More died I seem to have died myself: because we were a single soul as Pythagoras once said. But such is the flux of human affairs.”
— Erasmus to Peter Tomiczki, August 31, 1535. [x]
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the far side (in 3D)
every day the ''nonbinary positivity'' of liberals gets more antagonistic
if you have a job it's funny and relatable and cool to stay in the closet, and maybe kind of cringe to come out. don't come out at work.
you don't have to medically transition and it's kind of cool and edgy and more radical anyway if you don't. don't take hormones, don't pursue surgery, don't pursue electrolysis, don't assert bodily autonomy
you don't have to socially transition, you don't owe anyone a performance. don't change your behavior, don't act different, keep doing what's expected, be normal
you don't have to use new pronouns or a new name or even tell anyone. if you're in the closet, stay in the closet.
you are not trans. you are not trans. you are not trans.
I've mentioned here before that after I read The Lord of the Rings earlier this year, I proceeded to listen to the BBC radio drama that was produced in the 80's, and it became my favorite adaptation of the story. In fact, I can't go back and read any part of the book without hearing the actors' voices in my head- which is a little frustrating, but it speaks to how much I admired their performances. And there is no performance I admired more than that of the lead actor, Ian Holm, who plays Frodo Baggins. And because I haven't seen a ton of posts discussing the radio adaptation or the actors' performances, I want to take a moment to gush over a couple line readings from Ian Holm that particularly impressed me and made me love his portrayal of Frodo. (Keep Reading to see/hear them, because the quoted passages from the book ended up being rather long.)
Something I've noticed about J.R.R. Tolkien's writing, which became especially clear when I was writing out the passages from LOTR that I'm going to spotlight, is that he doesn't often indicate the emotion with which a line of dialogue is spoken, if there's any emotion at all. This makes it easier, when speaking of adaptations, for a director to interpret in their own way, and for an actor to bring to life that director's vision. But it also has the effect, on me at least, of reading much of the dialogue in the book as being calmly, plainly spoken. Take for example this line, which is Frodo's response after Sam finds him having been imprisoned by orcs, and tells him that he's been gone for more than a day:
"Only that?" said Frodo. "It seems weeks. You must tell me all about it, if we get a chance. Something hit me, didn't it? And I fell into darkness and foul dreams, and woke and found that waking was worse. Orcs were all round me. I think they had just been pouring some horrible burning drink down my throat. My head grew clear, but I was aching and weary. They stripped me of everything; and then two brutes came and questioned me, questioned me until I thought I should go mad, standing over me, gloating, fingering their knives. I'll never forget their claws and eyes."
In my head, when I read this line, I imagined that Frodo was just matter-of-factly telling Sam what happened to him. Maybe he sounded a little weary, because his imprisonment had been an exhausting, arduous ordeal, and because he's relieved to have been rescued. But here is how Ian Holm delivers the line in the radio drama:
Now, part of this is obviously different because the line is rewritten and condensed (though the basic information is retained). But the delivery of the line makes such a huge difference to me compared to how I imagined it when I read the book. The way Frodo is gibbering and stuttering, words spilling out of him, really hammers home just how awful his torment was and how a part of him is still living it as he talks about it. It was a moment that made me go "woah" when I first heard it. (I also just really admire the willingness to go full-on pathetic, whimpering, dare I say sniveling little meow meow. I’m no actor by any means, but I can only imagine that it takes courage and confidence to reach these heights (or these lows?), knowing that you’ll probably end up sounding ridiculous but also knowing that it fits the character to go there.)
The other line I took notice of and wanted to highlight is this line from the end of the book, when Frodo explains to Sam that he has to leave Middle-earth to find peace and healing across the sea. Again, I pictured this being spoken in a very calm and composed way, as Frodo has made up his mind about what he wants to do and wants Sam to feel comforted about his decision:
"So I thought too, once. But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them. But you are my heir: all that I had and might have had I leave to you. And also you have Rose, and Elanor; and Frodo-lad will come, and Rosie-lass, and Merry, and Goldilocks, and Pippin; and perhaps more that I cannot see. Your hands and your wits will be needed everywhere. You will be the Mayor, of course, as long as you want to be, and the most famous gardener in history; and you will read things out of the Red Book, and keep alive the memory of the age that is gone, so that people will remember the Great Danger and so love their beloved land all the more. And that will keep you as busy and as happy as anyone can be, as long as your part of the Story goes on. Come now, ride with me!"
To be fair, for the most part, Frodo does sound very calm and composed as he says this in the radio adaptation... but there's one little part at the end that elevates the scene so much for me:
Okay, let's be honest, I also shared this scene so everyone could heard Sam calling Frodo "my dear..." But! The important thing is- this is the only version of the story that I've experienced (and granted, I've only read the book, seen the movies, and listened to the radio play, so that's not saying much, but STILL) where Frodo sounds heartbroken at the thought of leaving Sam. I get the sense that he knows what he wants to do and is comfortable with his decision... but he's still upset that his "friend of friends" can't come with him. Maybe he feels "torn in two," the way Sam did when he started a family and found himself equally devoted to Frodo and to his wife and daughter. I don't know. What I do know is- I really, REALLY love this acting choice, and I'm thankful to Ian Holm for making it and to Jane Morgan and Penny Leicester (who are credited as directors of the program, so I'm guessing they directed the voice actors) for directing him to do so.
This is not even getting into the more subtle parts of the performance that I love, such as how youthful Frodo sounds at the beginning of the production compared to after the timeskip, and just in general how true to the book the performance feels... but I don't have all day to make clips from this production, sadly. So just take my word for it- Ian Holm is SUPER GOOD as Frodo. As are most of the actors in their respective roles, tbh. I could just as easily have made a whole post about how perfect Michael Hordern's performance as Gandalf is, or Peter Woodthorpe as Gollum. The only ones I don't really care for are Robert Stephens as Aragorn (not that his performance is bad or that it doesn't fit Aragorn, but I personally don't like the sound of his voice) and Bill Nighy as Sam (I mean, he's definitely GOOD but I wanted to hear a GREAT performance, and I don't think he quite got there imo). But of course, your mileage may vary.
Excerpts from the Lord of the Rings radio drama, part 2
Last week, I made a post about the BBC radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings and how much I loved Ian Holm's performance in it. Because a few people responded positively to that post, I've decided to share a couple more excerpts.
While there are other actors in this adaptation whose performances are worth gushing over (and I may make posts about them eventually!), I wanted to post a couple more clips of Ian Holm as Frodo (because the ones I shared in the other post were a bit depressing and I felt bad about that), plus what I think is Bill Nighy's shining moment as Sam. Keep Reading if you'd like to find out what that moment is...
