i’m not asleep my mind is alive

Hazyl. Like a hazel tree, but a person. 28. nb; she/they.

[utopians]

when you die you get to see your irl achievements list like they have on steam

[utopians]

I get struck and killed by a falling air conditioner and as my soul ascends to heaven three merit badges reading HAD SEX IN A GOLF COURSE, TOOK LSD IN THE MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM, and CRIED IN THE RESTROOM OF AMERICA'S OLDEST OYSTER HOUSE drift through my field of vision. these are my only human accomplishments deemed significant by god

[hot-thiggity-thighs]

@montereybayaquarium

[utopians]

Hey

[gumptioncretaceous]

@americasoldestoysterhouse

[americasoldestoysterhouse]

Hey What The Fuck

[utopians]

COME ON

[sarahseeandersen]

[expiredpersona]

[intercal]

watches this instead of what’s on TV

[gemstone-gynoid]

Plato’s allegory of the cave

[brunhiddensmusings]

does it come with a cardboard cutout of Michael Jordan attached to a toy train to simulate the shadows someone walking around my home?

[philomonstrum]

What a specific desire

[brunhiddensmusings]

[helloitsbees]

[thurstonwaffles]

When your cat glitches 🤔😹

[overthinkinglotr]

Incomplete list of great things the PJ LOTR films added that weren’t in the books

OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD– feel free to add on!

“I made a promise Mr Frodo— a promise! Don’t you leave him Samwise Gamgee. And I don’t mean to. I don’t mean to.”

In general all the scenes where there’s no words/dialogue, and the music and visuals and actor’s performances are allowed to carry the story instead….something that’s impossible to do in a book. The standout moment for me is the moment after the ring is destroyed, Bard-Dur collapses, and it’s portrayed as.relief beyond words.

THE SOUNDTRACK IN GENERAL

The scene in mount doom that’s like “don’t you let go. Don’t let go.”

The hobbits returning home to find everything the same,  and being heartbroken because they’ve changed so much.. I’m not saying it’s better than the book’s plotline where they returned home to find the Scouring of the Shire™, but it’s impactful in a completely different way

The scene where Eowyn hears Theoden’s last words, instead of Merry hearing them like he did in the books. Again, not necessarily “better,” but impactful in a different way

“my brother, my captain….. my king.”

Flm!Boromir in general. He’s a drastically different character than he was in the books, and YMMV on which version you like better, but I’m so glad film!Boromir is here

“No parent should have to bury their child.”

Arwen’s expanded role in general, and the way they we actually got to see her make her choice to stay in Middle Earth

That subplot in the Two Towers where Aragorn tames a wild unruly horse, basically becoming the protagonist of a Horse Girl Movie

THE PACING!!!!!!!!!!!! 

The way they moved around a lot of the dialogue to places that made it hit differently. .Like in the books Gandalf says the line “many that live deserve death– and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them?” when he’s still in the Shire with Frodo. But in the films, he says it in Moria instead, in his last conversation with Frodo before his own death. 

[coolnerdyrn]

cracks knuckles

My time has come.

Legolas’ miniature character arc of growing to understand death. Gandalf dies? Just pure shock. He looks like he got punched. Boromir dies? He’s just so. Sad and confused. Like a little kid who doesn’t know what dying is but he knows it’s bad. They think the Hobbits are dead? Legolas bows his head and murmurs a farewell in Elvish, but he still doesn’t seem to comprehend. He thinks Aragorn is dead? He practically shuts down because now he gets it. Battle of the Black Gate, when it looks like Aragorn is about to die? That is the only moment besides Moria when we see Legolas is genuinely afraid.

“Never thought I’d die fighting side by side with an Elf.” “What about side by side with a friend?” “…Aye. I could do that.”

Éomer finding Éowyn after the battle instead of in the middle of it and letting out that gut-wrenching scream.

“They have a Cave-Troll.”

Basically the entire fight sequence in Balin’s tomb, which was much shorter in the book.

That EPIC charge down the mountain at Helm’s Deep. Looks like a freaking Renaissance painting.

Boromir training the Hobbits to fight. It’s just so pure and wholesome.

Actually that whole scene because it’s the one moment—before the crebain show up—that we get to see the Fellowship just being friends without some immediate crisis.

Sam getting to say a proper goodbye to Bill the Pony because I have FEELINGS about that pony, okay?!

Arwen and Aragorn having an essentially telepathic connection. Idk if it’s better than the books, but honestly it’s a good way to expand her character without changing it completely—which is what they were gonna do originally by having her show up at Helm’s Deep to fight.

The Elves showing up at Helm’s Deep. I don’t like that literally none of them survived, but that moment when Haldir said they came to honor the old allegiance of Men and Elves? That is some Good Content.

[cydril]

Also, for your consideration:

[foreveriallyzombified]

btw i found a lot of people who work private security literally fully think they’re cops. it’s really funny and sometimes disturbing

[foreveriallyzombified]

[reputayswift]

Is there a word for that like, “bright darkness” you get in winter?? When it’s been snowing or it’s supposed to snow past sunset and the sky isn’t Dark Enough. One of my favorite things

[reputayswift]

Thanks to @raindropwindow and a handful of articles, it’s called snow albedo, skyglow, snowglow, or just light scattering! It’s the result of moon- or artificial light reflecting off ground snow, low clouds, or ice crystals.

[vampiremansionpoolboy-moved]

what if you had blue hair and pronouns and i had red hair and pronouns and we fought in the rain

[timegears-moved-deactivated2025]

[catsofinstagram]

[ya-wn]

please for the love of god turn ur sound on

[iamprophet4profit]

*boston accent*  “It takes a pet like NO PRABLEM! Nat afraid at alll, Thats a great cat right there..”

[destroyscythe-heck]

Here he is all grown up!

His name is Maui and he still takes a pat like no phrawblem

But he’s still giving you the stink eye because he’s actually a New York bodega cat at Willy’s Deli in Brooklyn and you know how New Yorkers are about Bostonians

That’s a great cat right there

Also his whittle white peety paws 😍😍😍

[fluffy-critter]

I love how they’re evaluating him like a car

[musicalhell]

always reblog Maui, a great cat right there

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[i-am-dulaman]

Gay panic

[tallahasseemp3]

help

[fish-to-male]

one day some of you will actually go outside and go to pride and you’re going to meet old black queens who refers to themselves as femme, you’ll meet people from small towns who still use the word transsexual, you’ll see that your local activist organization set up a stall about your local LGBT history that includes leather bar’s history, you’ll see lesbians in groups refer to themselves as “guys” and “boys”, you’ll see someone with breasts and pasties and little else have “he / him” painted on his chest, and you’ll be so caught up with your terminally online attitude that instead of appreciating the wide diversity of people who exist in the LGBT community who are brave enough to share themselves you’ll just be formulating posts and tweets in your head for when get home about how “problematic” it all was and it’s honestly tragic

[saturnialsapphic]

Once, back when I worked in an LGBTQIA dungeon, I encountered a significantly older person who remarked to me that they hadn’t been to “this type of place” in decades. They struck up a conversation with me and told me how amazing it was to see an openly transexual youth such as myself. I asked them about their experiences with gender and they said “oh, well, I’m a bit male and a bit female. Men’s and women’s clothes, sometimes makeup in a suit, sometime fresh faced in a dress when I’m at home. You know, bisexual” Obv this puzzled me at first until I realized this person was using bisexual in a very, very, literal and old fashioned sense, as in, dual-sexed. Non-binary.

Y’all gotta understand there are generation gaps in the language we use and you open yourself up to a LOT of very interesting stories if you stop blocking off the past.

[ittybittytatertot]

One of the biggest problems with modern community is the idea that (white) western, post 2000s LGBT vocabulary is the only correct way to speak about sexuality and gender.

Like the freak outs under pictures of protests from the 70s-90s because signs and shirts say faggot and dyke and queer, as if these words weren’t a key part of identity and activism.

Beyond just English, I saw a couple people making fun of the term “gender x” in an anime…but why would a Japanese production adhere to English standards?

Or the way people talk about pronouns as if every language uses pronouns the same way as English.

It’s just…it indicates a mindset that these words are objective and written in stone and western youth culture is always the most correct in a way that…feels icky. Diversity in people includes diversity of language.

[hyrude]

high and just ate a breahhtakingly crisp grape

not joking this is giving me the will to live another day. life's intoxicatingly full of many such little pleasures

[thenatsdorf]

Sassy mew. (via)

[felcemartello]

That’s waluigi

[ibakesouffles]

stop everything, this is bitty doing research for his thesis

there's more lmao, unhinged bitty energy

[thunder28]

I lost it at- should be pale- and he fucking compared it to his own pasty arm. Legend

[feralnumberfive]

I don't know what to say, but I will tell you that I'm jealous

[redcap3]

It is pretty fun, but you need to know the top vote-getter was “Abolish ICE” and they robbed us.

[glumshoe]

The urge to seduce Death, to take it softly by the cold hand and lead it to your boudoir, is an ancient and primal one that we can only explore by with cheat codes on The Sims.