FrayedCobweb

I'm the artist formerly known as Bexminx. Writer, poet, artist. Weirdo, introvert, creative, queer. She/her. I like to think of myself as a writeblr, but I'm a little bit of everything :) My blog is a scantily tagged chaos mixture of writeblr and random things I liked and therefore rebogged.

[frayedcobweb]

I make pretty things and I wanted to share these rainbow earrings. I wear them every day and love them so much. And not often I share a pic of me lol.

[cutecipher]

digital ads arent just annoying, intrusive and privacy invading but they burn a significant amount of global energy usage. the exact numbers are hard to find because they get buried but estimates i saw when i researched this a few years ago (and was not subjected to a flood of ai generated articles) put it around 1% of yearly global energy usage

[cutecipher]

the 1% figure comes from wall street journal article im having trouble unpaywalling, here's the study it's from:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195925517303505

[annabelle--cane]

sometimes someone I follow falls victim to severe Character delirium to the point where they stop even saying the character's name and just refer to them by an epithet like some kind of malevolent entity whom they don't wish to accidentally summon, so if the sickness sets in quickly enough and I don't pay close attention for a week I'm just Never going to figure Who this bastard haunting my friend Actually Is. and I'll spend months scrolling my dash occasionally seeing appeals to "that fucking horse" or "my evil grub."

[fealty-to-thee]

[thememedaddy]

[emotargaryen]

one of the tweets of all time to me

[1794]

mustard snob canon

[pukicho]

I got whatever ADHD is called

[ineedtestosterone2763]

ADHD is called ADHD.

[pukicho]

That’s the one

[kushblazer666]

[teacupsandcyanide]

I've been rereading LOTR and it's struck me just how much of "The Council of Elrond" is Tolkien patiently plugging up every single conceivable plot hole, making sure everyone character gets to be passive aggressive at least once, and mildly scolding himself for how long the chapter is as a result

[teacupsandcyanide]

Erestor: Well couldn't Bombadil help us with the Ring?

Gandalf: Um, no, Erestor, actually he couldn't, he's literally just a walking creepypasta who never leaves the forest

Erestor: So he could keep it IN the forest?

Gandalf: He only perceives old man nature energy, his hot wife, and four-line stanzas about himself, I cannot begin to describe how low on his list of priorities keeping it secret and keeping it safe would be

[teacupsandcyanide]

Glorfindel: Okay so here's the plan. we throw the One Ring into the sea

Gandalf: Are you insane. this isn't a Christopher Nolan set

[teacupsandcyanide]

Gandalf: 1) Idk about you I just don't think we need another sinking into the sea situation, 2) tides, 3) they'll be watching the roads to the sea and the only thing holding them back is the loserly, fallen, sopping wet "force" of Gondor

Boromir: I'm literally right here but okay 😭😭😭💀

[teacupsandcyanide]

Boromir: Maybe 😅 I'm just like 🤷‍♂️ totally fucking crazy 🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️ But what if we like 🤔 wow idk. Used the One Ring to defeat Sauron

Elrond: dude.

[teacupsandcyanide]

Boromir: Fine whatever okay. 😬😅 Guess we'll just die waiting for Narsil to be lifted again. Unless the hands that inherited it have like, atrophied from disuse or whatever idk

Aragorn: Omg you're so right Boromir maybe i should use my sword. maybe I should use it right now

Gloin: .....Don't you Elves have Rings you could use?

The Elves:

Elrond: Were you even LISTENING to my exposition earlier

Erestor: But how are we even going to get to Mordor to destroy the Ring? Idk. Idk I'd almost say it was pointless. I'd almost say it was pointless and stupid. Obviously I wouldn't say it was pointless and stupid because Elrond came up with it and we all know –

Gandalf: You're pointless and stupid

Elrond: We can get it there, we don't even need strength. In fact we need un-strength. We need the weak. And the stupid. And the pointless. It's like I always say. You gotta have small hands. Hands that are small, stupid, pointless hands. Hands that are, say, half the size of regular hands. Small, half-ish, humble hands that can scuttle over the earth like small scuttly hole-builder –

Bilbo: ALRIGHT ALREADY I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE

[teacupsandcyanide]

#should've had someone suggest the eagles and plug that plothole too lol

This is the crazy thing - he did plug that plothole! Gandalf recounts how one of the Eagles, Gwaihir, found him stuck at the top of Orthanc when he came to bear Gandalf a message. When Gandalf asks him for a rescue out of there, Gwaihir only takes him a little south-east to Edoras and makes a pointed remark about how he was there “to bear tidings not burdens”

I think he could have plugged the hole tighter and made it really clear that the Eagles fucking hate carrying anyone anywhere and will only do it when someone’s life is immediately at stake and there’s no other option, and even then will only/can only carry people a certain distance. But I do think those things can certainly be interpreted from this bit!

And he spends so much of his focus convincing the reader that there’s definitely no way they can just hide the Ring somewhere impossibly remote or take it over the Sea or leave it with the Elves or use the other Rings to control/destroy it or have Tom Bombadil crush it with the power of his thighs I genuinely think he just didn’t anticipate anyone would fixate on Plan Eagle to the extent they did

[anyrava]

Saw my recent rock tutorial blow up a bit, wanted to also share this mountain painting tutorial I‘ve made!

You can find more tutorials on my Ko-Fi Shop if you've found this helpful and would like to support me in making more! 🫶🍃

[malibuklaus]

[galadriel1010]

Sometimes you get a brief glimpse into the American worldview and decide that you don't want to know.

[transcyberism]

I cannot stress enough that this meme is entirely literal. there's no reference or subtext you don't know. these are simply the objectively most popular works of art from each denomination.

[markv5]

Вставай, скоро молоко раздавать будут!…

[sergeantbabylegs-deactivated201]

[ranma-official]

the translation is significantly more Soviet in tone than the original, which is great

[animentality]

[fryeshiverbigman-deactivated202]

hmm... *gets in evil bed and holds my evil stuffed animal* evil night.. *turns off my fucked up evil lamp*

[feedyourdeadnametothevoidfish]

‘capitalism works’ factoid actually untrue. the 62 people who own half the world’s wealth are outliers and should be eaten.

[anarchistmemedistro]

62 8

[technofeudalism]

[g00burr]

Absolutely nuts how they made up a number for this satire post and the correction is that reality is *more absurd* than the number they chose

[anarchistmemedistro]

no i’m afraid it’s even worse than that. 62 was correct in 2016 when the original post was made.

[thoodleoo]

really love this ancient letter from a kid named theon to his dad (p. ox. 1 119) because it's so ridiculously salty and rude ("WOW dad it was SO COOL of you NOT to take me to alexandria with you"), incredibly demanding ("bring me with you or i'm going to stop eating and drinking and i'll never speak to you again") and then ends with the appropriately polite typical close to a letter ("i pray that you are in good health"). truly exactly what i would expect from a moody child.

[pastelalleycat]

Theon to his father Theon, greeting. It was a fine thing of you not to take me with you to the city! If you won't take me with you to Alexandria I won't write you a letter or speak to you or say goodbye to you; and if you go to Alexandria I won't take your hand nor ever greet you again. That is what will happen if you won't take me. Mother said to Archelaus, “It quite upsets him to be left behind(?).” It was good of you to send me presents... on the 12th, the day you sailed. Send me a lyre, I implore you. If you don’t, I won't eat, I won't drink; there now!

He demands a lyre like an iPhone 😭

[boymounter]

so many people don't understand how abelist it is to kill your brother with a rock

[utopians]

the avatar movies are crazy bc "what if colonizers literally inhabited and puppeteered the bodies of indigenous peoples in order to exploit their homeland" sounds like the premise of some sort of anticolonial horror film, like specifically the kind of thing that would be commenting on self-indigenization among white settlers, but because it's James Cameron his whole takeaway from that premise is "it would be preddy cool"

[utopians]

actually sorry. the takeaway is also "the white settler possessing an indigenous body would actually be extremely good, perhaps even The Best, at being indigenous, and he would become their Leader"