Island Time

Egg, NZ ~ they/them ~ Just trying to find my own Margheritaville 👌 chill space 🤘

[thefloatingstone]

[ismarus-art]

This one is a little more personal - it was my bedroom for over a decade! My family traveled in an RV for over ten years, so I got pretty familiar with this space XD

[faustandfurious]

Whenever I read LotR and reach the battle between Eowyn and the Witch-king, I get the impression that the reason why the prophecy loophole works isn’t that the Witch-king is unkillable except for some illogical weakness nobody had thought about yet for misogynistic reasons, but that the Witch-king himself derives so much of his power from the fear he instills in others and from his own belief that he is unkillable. Eowyn doesn’t fear him, because she doesn’t fear death. When she twists his words right back at him, she’s not trying to exploit a prophecy loophole, she’s just making a play on the double meaning of the word «man» with fairly standard battlefield bravado.

But, crucially, it gets the Witch-king wondering if there might be an actual loophole in the prophecy. He starts doubting his own invincibility. There’s no logical reason why a woman might be able to kill him if a man cannot, but prophecies are tricky things. What if …

And this is what undoes him, in the end. This last minute doubt. The Witch-king, deep down, believes that Eowyn can kill him, thus making it possible for her to do so.

[faustandfurious]

The elves care about the prophecy. The Witch-king cares about the prophecy. All the old, powerful beings of Middle Earth play by the rules of prophecy and live by the logic of Norse Sagas and Germanic legends.

Eowyn marches up to the Witch-king like Jared (19), goes “that sign won’t stop me because I can’t read”, and because the storybook logic, the fairytale logic, of the prophecy allows for her kill him, the Witch-king as a creature of stories and nightmares has to play by his own rules and die by her sword.

[faustandfurious]

As people have pointed out before, the phrasing of Glorfindel’s words about the Witch-king allow for quite a number of the inhabitants of Middle Earth to kill him, if we’re only looking for possible loopholes in the prophecy.

not by the hand of man shall he fall

According to this, the Witch-king could technically be killed by elves, dwarves, ents, hobbits, orcs or maiar. Why doesn’t Legolas kill the Witch-king? Why doesn’t Gandalf?

As mentioned, elves are very aware of the story logic that governs Middle Earth. They see their own place in the narrative, they know which foes are beyond them. Gandalf, too, knows that he cannot be the one to kill the Witch-king, and the Witch-king knows that Gandalf cannot kill him. Through their combined beliefs, the outcome of their fight is predetermined.

Eowyn doesn’t know what she can or cannot do according to story logic. The Witch-king has killed her Theoden. She sees no reason why she shouldn’t avenge him. And when she hears the Witch-king tell her that no man can kill him, she simply decides that that rule doesn’t apply to her.

Eowyn isn’t the only person who could have been the exception to the rule, but she is the first person who decides to genuinely, honestly believe that she is the exception to the rule, and this is why she ultimately kills the Witch-king.

[redfrilled-moved]

i cant stop thinking abt the two headed calf poem like ;-; i feel like a two headed calf psychologist no i will not explain

[redfrilled-moved]

Two headed calf moodboard

[aroboros]

[heavensickness]

[masked613]

#reblogging agaim just so ppl know that reason why the buddy cant stay alive is cuz hes gonna die in 2 days or less#two headed cows cant survive and usually are born dead and have a lot of medical problems#so rather than a tramatic death they get put down safely#cant keep him but can love him enough to not let him suffer

[briarin]

Thank you for the clarification on that

[nubs-mbee]

Martin should have been more aware of selkie courting rituals

[shitzpostz]

[cummunismkillls-deactivated2019]

Girl what am I being sold here?

[fat-mabari]

Understanding.

[wuqs]

Visit Original Link

[arkadefire-blog]

IT SOUNDS LIKE A BED TIME STORY

[erisdarofalbion]

THIS HAS MADE ME SO HAPPY OMF I CANNOT EVEN BEGIN TO TELL YOU

[no-chill-at-all]

[chemicalkin]

I’m not over this review of a self groomer for a three legged cat. Look at him. He hasn’t been able scratch his left side by himself since he lost his leg but now he can and he is living life the fullest. That is the face of a cat who has finally scratched an itch.

[fuchsiamae]

consider: aperture as a popular workplace for trans people in the 50s-60s because they’d help you transition, in whatever way you wanted, no questions asked

bill from accounting is brenda now? cool, if she made it out of the lab without antennae and her blood is still blood, we’re happy for her

[gladosisalesbian]

*cave johnson voice* sure aperture’s insurance policy covers top surgery. if you let us do it on the premises. and keep the boobs after. we like to fill em with bees. see what happens. turns out what happens is you have some very loud, very angry breasts. completely useless. but good science!

[notvoid]

[margbarcis]

this video is genuinely incredible - the framing, the sunset, the single street light, the sound of traffic and cicadas in the background, the video of the sign capture imperfectly by (presumably) a phone camera. it’s a work of art and a perfect encapsulation of 21st century america

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

i get so irrationally angry at phone calls unless i love you. like no you cannot disturb me..... except you specifically can actually

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

to the extended car warranty phone callers: you are not my beloved. die

[ismarus-art]

My current mood 🥰😪

My commissions are open! (I added a few different price points ❤️)

⭐️ My shop ⭐️

[unown]

[semusepsu]

This is like the American version of that one British guy reacting to the tea

[cannedviennasnausage]

“just put the cow in there next time” “girl, you are oppressing that coffee”

[redwizardofgay]

“You’re gonna put that in your body?” broke me 

[hiziri-pro]

Stegosaurus.

Posted a picture to the patreon. Full size JPG and PSD and video can be downloaded according to the amount of support. https://www.patreon.com/satoshi_matsuura

[theradioghost]

my favorite genre of photo is “excited scientist lying down next to a very big fossil/animal/object/etc they have found to show off how big it is”

[theradioghost]

for as long as humans have taken photos, some of those humans have wanted to be photographed next to the really big cool thing they found

frequently those cool things have been sauropod femurs as it turns out

[ID: a collage of four images. moving clockwise from topmost left they are: a black-and-white image from 1900 of paleontologist Harold Menke in Colorado lying next to the femur of a Brachiosaurus, which is longer than he is tall; a 2014 photo of paleontologist Jose Ignacio Canudo in Argentina lying in a similar pose next to the femur of the titanosaur Patagotitan, which is also longer than he is tall; a 2021 photo of biologist Jennifer Johnson lying in the bottom of a boat next to a seven-foot-long lake sturgeon tagged in the Detroit River; a 2018 photo of a paleontologist in the Gobi Desert lying next to a pair of enormous three-toed dinosaur footprints.]

[knitordeath]

if I had a nickel for every time I have read a field report along the lines of “we couldn’t find the measuring tape, but the wall segment was 3 and 3/4th Jeremys long” with a quick math scribble for the approximate length and an annotation added in later of the actual measurement, I would have about a dollar ten. A person is a valid unit of measurement when all else fails.

[average-acorn]

[theradioghost]

OH SO THIS IS WHY PEOPLE KEEP TAGGING MY POST ‘CARLOS FOR SCALE’