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piece of media you feel crazy about at formative age is truly like the hotel california. you can check out but you can never leave

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My favorite scenes in the LotR books are the ones where Legolas has vital information and just decides it's not important to share.

Like when Gandalf spent literal PAGES trying to figure out why the vibes were off in Moria and Legolas chimes in with just "it's a balrog :) that shit's evil :) we're so fucked :)" like what do you MEAN you knew already and just didn't tell him??

Or at the beginning of Two Towers when Aragorn thinks there's something nearby so he puts his ear to the ground to listen, and then like 10 minutes later is like "hmmm i hear horses" and Legolas is just like "mm yep. there are 105 blond bitches with spears" like you just let your friend put his face in the dirt and you can SEE them??

Legolas please gain a sense of urgency

My best friend died two years ago this week, but her online presence still haunts me (as she would want). Seeing this today, I laughed, then I cried, then laughed harder.

#grief is weird #dark humour tw #our dark humor didn’t die with her at least?

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Trust me. This hurts me more than it hurts you.

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Most corporate social media accounts use memes to try and appear hip with the kids so they’ll buy their product but the Sparknotes twitter account is clearly just run by a literature geek who was told they could make memes about old books and is having the time of their life doing just that

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“What a shame the poor groom’s bride is a—”

“Watermelon?”

“No!!!”

.....why this kinda sLAP THO

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how do I explain that my favourite song is just a tik tok

doctorbluesmanreturns

@daisy-coloured-dreams

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Ice Evil

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These mortal Kombat fatalities are getting weirder

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socially-awkward-supervillian

Fun fact: Cheetahs only attack prey that runs

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jesus that is good to know.

chandra75-deactivated20180905

Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten.

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REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit

my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies

pkmnbreederbrianna

Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs. So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly - not spazz themselves into miscarrying. So what’d they do? They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs! The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!

emo-islandniles

AJHHHHFDDGHH SO PRECIOUS

renirabbit

this post just got so much better

enjoying-nudiustertian-deactiva

THIS IS OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE POST

wylltingtrees

sashayed

this is emmett and cullen they are best friends

clover11-10

This is the greatest thing I’ve seen all day.

Dogs are truly angels.

oshiawaseni

so THATS why these cheetah ft dogo pics exist

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the anxiety cat

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Also! Cheetahs are not in fact classified as big cats, they are simply very large lesser cats, due to the fact that they purr, meow, chirp, and cannot roar. Also many cheetahs have learned to recognize wildlife photographers are friends and not foes, so they will just come up to people and be friendly occasionally as pictured at the top of the chain. Some will even leave their Cubs with photographers to look after while they hunt. So. Yeah. Cheetahs are great

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gentlemanbones

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I have no idea what’s going on

pewterkat

Congrats, we have reached a period of time where there is a generation that does not remember the first memes.

ryanthedemiguy

Look, i’ve been on tumblr for nine fucking years and I don’t get this meme. I remember seeing it at some point, but have no clue what it means.

nerdfighterwhatevernumbers

because this meme is pre tumblr and pre-youtube and is about 17 years old, almost twice as long as you’ve been on tumblr the ancient depths of albinoblacksheep will never die

headspace-hotel

narnia has actually way too many completely devastating concepts in it that are not explored At All

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We talk a lot about how in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Pevensie children live full adult lives as kings and queens of narnia before stumbling out of the wardrobe by accident and being children again after like 15+ years. But I’ve never seen the same level of analysis devoted to how in Prince Caspian they return to Narnia and discover that over 1,000 years have passed in Narnia since their last visit.

Imagine undergoing the grief of losing an entire life you lived in another world, being forced back into the body of a child and to grow up all over again without the ability to even talk about what happened in the decades you lost. Every person you knew and loved, vanished, leaving no indication they were ever real and no guide for how to move on.

But returning to that world where you were a King or Queen and discovering that centuries have passed without you and that the people you lost are not only dead, but mostly aren’t even remembered? That’s almost worse.

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That series is really something for “worldbuilding threads picked up and never touched again” too like

in the silver chair it’s confirmed that deep underneath the earth in narnia there’s a molten, fiery abyss world called Bism that is apparently populated and also apparently gemstones are living creatures that live there, and what we understand as diamonds, emeralds, rubies etc. are just the discarded husks of once living creatures

Jadis is actually not originally from Narnia, but accidentally gets sent there at its creation (making her one of the oldest beings in narnia) and she annihilated all life in her world of origin. she also very much does go to literal actual London and terrorize people. she is like 7 feet tall and can tear iron with her bare hands like it’s taffy.

Jadis makes it “Always winter and never Christmas”…what the FUCK is her beef with Father Christmas. I know it’s supposed to be like a metaphor or some shit but I’m imagining what exactly the fuck must have happened between them for jadis to specifically want to prevent him from coming to narnia to the extent that her powerful seasonal-change-stopping magic also includes a “fuck that guy in particular” clause.

like think about it, Jesus is not a thing in narnia, he’s just aslan. and aslan did not get born. ergo, the origin of such a concept as Christmas is the entity Father Christmas. Christmas is not a religious holiday to Narnians it has no symbolic meaning it is just specifically the time of year when Father Christmas fucks around across the landscape giving children gifts, such as very deadly real weapons. There’s no reason for him to do this. It’s just what he does. And Jadis fucking hates it.

another thing from the magicians nephew that is never brought up again is that Polly and Digory don’t go directly to Narnia, they end up in this intermediate place between the worlds that’s like a forest full of pools leading to other worlds, potentially infinite other worlds, and they end up in Narnia pretty much at random.

I think it’s also confirmed that Archenlanders were originally from Earth, and are the descendants of a small group of people who traveled to Narnia by accident and got stuck. One wonders why Aslan didn’t whisk them back out. Or why being too old wasn’t a problem for them.

I think this is early installment weirdness but there are Roman gods in narnia. ?????

stars are sentient???

narnia is flat. this is not actually an unresolved thread but I don’t think it’s common knowledge even though in one of the books they literally sail to the edge of the world. caspian specifically thinks it’s super cool that the earth is round

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I LOVE the whole concept of Bism. Like Lewis really just said oh yeah there’s a whole world under Narnia where people live and jewels are alive too actually you wear dead ones in your jewellery and then no one ever spoke about it again, not even the fandom

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No wonder this series infuriated Tolkien so much. Lewis just threw paint at a wall and jokingly asked the man who’d spent a decade on a single painting if he liked it.

fireladyofink

Holy shit there is a lot about Narnia I don’t know.

silvysartfulness

to the extent that her powerful seasonal-change-stopping magic also includes a “fuck that guy in particular” clause.

A specific santa clause if you will,

heavenlyyshecomes

the relationship between girls and the fantasy series they read when young is so special nothing comes close to it

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As the cold winter nights begin to grow darker and longer, I feel that now is the time to revive the ancient and honorable game of snap-dragon.

Dating originally to the 16th century, this game entails taking a large, shallow bowl, filling it with brandy and raisins, and then lighting that sucker on fire. The object of the game is to grab flaming, jumping raisins out of the bowl and extinguish them by eating them. The person with the least third-degree burns at the end of the night wins.

Somehow this became associated with Christmas, so it’s seasonally appropriate. What else are you going to do in the middle of winter?

There are many quaint Victorian images of families pretending that this is a civilized pastime, but my personal favorite depiction is the most realistic, a late 18th century drawing showing several generations of one family who are all so drunk off their tits that they are trying to get their pets to play and coming dangerously close to lighting the cat on fire: