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@deatheaterpizzaparty
I don’t care what the Founding Fathers would have wanted, I don’t care if Jesus was a hippie or not, I don’t care what Marx prescribed. I can’t take living in a world where we’re all servants of long-dead men. You know what happens if you make a law the Founding Fathers wouldn’t like? Nothing, they’re dead and they’re never coming back. I’m genuinely envious of countries that can just make whatever laws they want without worrying about how 18th century agrarian noblemen would have seen it. Stop arguing that Jesus loved the poor too, what he loved or didn’t love is irrelevant, he doesn’t get a say in any of this. We could have a country that isn’t shackled to these ghosts if we collectively wanted to.
This is gorgeous.
so the cah pride pack has options for buying it “with glitter" and “without glitter” and knowing cards against humanity they just tip like 3 tablespoons of fucking glitter into the pack of cards and send it out
this is absolutely what they’ve done
I did it to myself so you don’t have to
send help
my look from the Midsummer Lolita cocktail party I hosted with @cottonbook We were planning an outdoor picnic, but rain was forecasted all day so we moved to a greenhouse-looking bar restaurant. It was honestly a lucky move because our guests did not have to worry about cooking or buying food to serve.
I sprained my ankle and have to wear an unsightly cast boot, so the short hem of Lolita fashion was not ideal. I opted for a long skirt to cover it up.
Look at my beautiful friend.
Relationship Words That Aren’t Translatable Into English (INSP)
I disappear sometimes. It’s my thing.
Pat pat pat.
It doesn’t matter how terrifying or monstrous or deadly you make your eldritch monster, there’s gonna be a person who hauls themselves out of the sewers to tell you that they will personally fuck it.
This post has so many notes and it’s mostly people calling out their friends for being sewer-dwelling awful cryptid fuckers and I love it. Expose them.
“Don’t ever think that everyone who leaves wants to.”
— Unknown
Legolas pretty quickly gets in the habit of venting about his travelling companions in Elvish, so long as Gandalf & Aragorn aren’t in earshot they’ll never know right?
Then about a week into their journey like
Legolas: *in Elvish, for approximately the 20th time* ugh fucking hobbits, so annoying
Frodo: *also in Elvish, deadpan* yeah we’re the worst
Legolas:
~*~earlier~*~
Legolas: ugh fucking hobbits
Merry: Frodo what’d he say
Frodo: I’m not sure he speaks a weird dialect but I think he’s insulting us. I should tell him I can understand Elvish
Merry: I mean you could do that but consider
Merry: you can only tell him ONCE
Frodo: Merry. You’re absolutely right. I’ll wait.
#legolas’ hick accent vs #frodo’s ‘i learned it out of a book’ accent #FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
Legolas: umm well your accent is horrible
Aragorn: *hollering from a distance* HIS ACCENT IS BETTER THAN YOURS LEGOLAS YOU SILVAN HICK
Frodo: :)
Frodo: Hello. My name is Frodo. I am a Hobbit. How are you?
Legolas: y’alld’ve’ff’ve
Frodo, crying: please I can’t understand what you’r saying
Ok, but Frodo didn’t just learn out of a book. He learned like… Chaucerian Elvish. So actually:
Frodo: Good morrow to thee, frend. I hope we twain shalle bee moste excellente companions.
Legolas: Wots that mate? ‘Ere, you avin’ a giggle? Fookin’ ‘obbits, I sware.
Aragorn: *laughing too hard to walk*
@ghostriderofthearagon
dYinGggGggg…
i mean, honestly it’s amazing the Elves had as many languages and dialects as they did, considering Galadriel (for example) is over seven thousand years old.
english would probably have changed less since Chaucer’s time, if a lot of our cultural leaders from the thirteenth century were still alive and running things.
they’ve had like. seven generations since the sun happened, max. frodo’s books are old to him, but outside any very old poetry copied down exactly, the dialect represented in them isn’t likely to be older than the Second Age, wherein Aragorn’s foster-father Elrond started out as a very young adult and grew into himself, and Legolas’ father was born.
so like, three to six thousand years old, maybe, which is probably a drop in the bucket of Elvish history judging by all the ethnic differentiation that had time to develop before Ungoliant came along, even if we can’t really tell because there weren’t years to count, before the Trees were destroyed.
plus a lot of Bilbo’s materials were probably directly from Elrond, whose library dates largely from the Third Age, probably, because he didn’t establish Imladris until after the Last Alliance. and Elrond isn’t the type to intentionally help Bilbo learn the wrong dialect and sound sillier than can be helped, even if everyone was humoring him more than a little.
so Frodo might sound hilariously formal for conversational use (though considering how most Elves use Westron he’s probably safe there) and kind of old-fashioned, but he’s not in any danger of being incomprehensible, because elves live on such a ridiculous timescale.
to over-analyse this awesome and hilarious post even more, legolas’ grandfather was from linguistically stubborn Doriath and their family is actually from a somewhat different, higher-status ethnic background than their subjects.
so depending on how much of a role Thranduil took in his upbringing (and Oropher in his), Legolas may have some weird stilted old-fashioned speaking tics in his Sindarin that reflect a more purely Doriathrin dialect rather than the Doriathrin-influenced Western Sindarin that became the most widely spoken Sindarin long before he was born, or he might have a School Voice from having been taught how to Speak Proper and then lapse into really obscure colloquial Avari dialect when he’s being casual. or both!
considering legolas’ moderately complicated political position, i expect he can code-switch.
…it’s also fairly likely considering the linguistic politics involved that Legolas is reasonably articulate in Sindarin, though with some level of accent, but knows approximately zero Quenya outside of loanwords into Sindarin, and even those he mostly didn’t learn as a kid.
which would be extra hilarious when he and gimli fetch up in Valinor in his little homemade skiff, if the first elves he meets have never been to Middle Earth and they’re just standing there on the beach reduced to miming about what is the short beard person, and who are you, and why.
this is elvish dialects and tolkien, okay. there’s a lot of canon material! he actually initially developed the history of middle-earth specifically to ground the linguistic development of the various Elvish languages!
Legolas: Alas, verily would I have dispatched thine enemy posthaste, but y’all’d’ve pitched a feckin’ fit.
Aragorn: *eyelid twitching*
Frodo: *frantically scribbling* Hang on which language are you even speaking right now
Pippin, confused: Is he not speaking Elvish?
Frodo, sarcastically: I dunno, are you speaking Hobbit?
Boromir, who has been lowkey pissed-off at the Hobbits’ weird dialect this whole time: That’s what it sounds like to me.
Merry, who actually knows some shit about Hobbit background: We are actually speaking multiple variants of the Shire dialect of Westron, you ignorant fuck.
Sam, a mere working-class country boy: Honestly y'all could be talkin Dwarvish half the time for all I know.
Pippin, entering Gondor and speaking to the castle steward: hey yo my man
Boromir, from beyond the grave: j e s u s
Literally canon
“And not every woman can be as brave as my Wylla and her sister Wynafryd… who did know, yet played her own part fearlessly.” – A Dance of Dragons Wynafryd Manderly cosplay at Ice and Fire Con by @deatheaterpizzaparty
“With her death, Grand Maester Pycelle observes, the joy went out of Tywin Lannister, yet still he persisted in his duty.”
– A World of Ice and Fire
Joanna and Tywin Lannister cosplayers from Ice and Fire Con 2017 Joanna by @deatheaterpizzaparty & Tywin by Rick Times. Photo by Candid Butterflies.
Jon looking at Sansa
Jon “only has heart eyes for Sansa” Snow
I’m sharing it again to let you know I’m still not okey that this is the way Jon looks at Sansa right after their reunion.
The very first moment we get to see these two really interacting and THIS is the way they decided Kit should look at her.
Sibling affection. Right.
That’s why it’s so funny. They never HAD sibling affection before. They talk in this very scene about HOW they never had sibling affection before. So how on earth is this supposed to BE sibling affection if they just said they never had it? It is a confusing thing. To feel a sudden strong love and care for someone who was never close to you before.
You can fall in love with someone, and more intensely over time, without even realizing quite what those strong feelings are. I think they were already falling in love while they went to war together (example: tent scene) but had not time or leisure to examine those feelings, or simply did not want to think about it.
And it was only after they were ruling Winterfell together, still preparing for the war against the NK but much more at leisure and back in their home, that at least Jon realized that he feels much too close to Sansa. While Jon was gone, we then got to see a pensive Sansa constantly thinking about and referring to Jon.
It’s in many ways a time line that makes total sense. For Jon it’s: reunion, denial, realization, separation. For Sansa it’s: reunion, denial, separation, realization.
“It’s in many ways a time line that makes total sense. For Jon it’s: reunion, denial, realization, separation. For Sansa it’s: reunion, denial, separation, realization.”
Perfectly said!
Jon x Sansa Au: Star Wars
hamlet’s dad: son you need to avenge me
hamlet: oh ABSOLUTELY
hamlet for the next four and a half acts:
@lucillesharpe
@deatheaterpizzaparty looking straight outta a painting as Wynafryd Manderly