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@genlitt
Things to bring back in books:
Chapter titles
Actually having a synopsis on the back instead of reviews no one will read
Some excellent additions from the notes:
Maps
Indexes of characters and places with pronunciations
Numbering books in a series on the spine
Tables of contents
The list of previous books in the series!!!!!!
More!! More!! My body! And soul!! Even harder!! Until I’m a wall that’ll never crumble! Red Riot Unbreakable!
Can we consider how many people Toph caused internal bleeding and broken bones?
oh honey they are fully dead
No but Toph was a professional earthbending wrestler with the power to feel the whole human body at once through vibrations with enough accuracy to tell lies. She knows exactly how much pressure the human body can take before important things start breaking or I’ll go buy a hat for the sole purpose of eating it.
oh, sure. she doesn't care though. she's 12 and she's thriving and she loves to murder
We forgetting about that time Katara cut through an air balloon, and sent a bunch of dudes plummeting to their deaths?
She almost cut Azula's face in half too
Casual reminder that this show was absolutely brutal.
Read The Rise of Kyoshi book to have graphic descriptions of people being impaled, burned, crushed, buried, sliced and so on.
Remember that time when Sokka blew up a side of a mountain which was swarming with Fire Nation troops? Or when Aang sank the invasion fleet at the Northern Water Tribe? Or Sokka/Toph/Suki’s “airship slice?” Yeah, the Gaang definitely took lives
Don’t even get me started on The Legend of Korra either. The last season went OFF after being taken off television
This post started by calling out Toph for murder to who outdone Toph in murder.
Man I remember when I was a kid and my mom would take me to the library and I'd come out with a stack of books like a foot+ tall - sometimes the librarians had to override the computer which told us we were checking out Too Much. And I'd get home and I'd plow through like three four five six chapter books in an afternoon and then I'd emerge for dinner only to go back for one more book, which I was still up reading two hours past bedtime and like damn those were the days huh.
Goddamn throwback to when I had an attention span
What’s funny is that this actually happened.
I’m unfamiliar with this story please elaborate
Finnish soldier gets separated from the rest of his unit but he’s the only one carrying the emergency amphetamines for the unit, takes too many and goes on a one man rampage for like 2 weeks straight giving the opposing Soviet soldiers nightmares for decades. Oh and he did it all on skis.
Did he survive?
Yes, during his methed up 2-3 week rampage he got injured by a land mine, travelled 400km on skis, and only ate pine buds and a Siberian Jay that he caught which he ate raw. When he made it back to Finnish lines he was taken to a hospital where it was found his heart rate was nearly 200 beats per minute and his weight had dropped to 43kg (94.7lbs).
His name was Aimo Koivunen if you want to look him up
Those are the eyes of a man who has seen god and laughed
we all make fun of Zuko for “that’s rough buddy” but like. how the fuck are you supposed to respond when someone just nonchalantly says “my girlfriend turned into the moon”
One of the ballsiest things Tolkien ever did was write 473k words about some hobbits called frodo, sam, merry, and pippin and then write in the appendices that their names are actually maura, ban, kali, and razal.
This just in: Eowyn and Eomer’s names actually start with the letter “L.” [source for other nerds]
#wait so they have hobbitish names and common names?
No, they have Westron names and English names.
What you’ve got to understand is that everything Tolkien wrote was him pretending to merely translate ancient documents. He was writing as if the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were actually been written by Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam (or Bilba, Maura, and Ban) and he was just some random contemporary academic translating it all into English for us.
There are many languages in his books, but generally speaking, everything written in English in the books is a translation of the language “Westron.” Therefore any names that come from Westron, he translated. Names coming from other languages, like Sindarin, he left as they were. Why? IDK. Maybe because the stories are from a hobbit perspective and hobbits speak Westron, so he wanted the Westron parts to sound familiar and the other languages/names to remain foreign?
“But Mirkwoodest!” you cry, “The word ‘hobbit’ isn’t an English word! And the names Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin Took, and Meriadoc Brandybuck” all sounds super weird and not like English at all!”
Psych! They are in English! (Or Old English, German, or Norse.) Once again you underestimate what a nerd Tolkien was. Let me break it down:
In Westron, hobbits are actually called “kuduk,” which means “hole-dweller,” so for an English translation, Tolkien called them “hobbits” which is a modernization of the Old English word “holbytla” which comes from “Hol” (hole) and “Bytla”(builder).
“Maura” is a Westron name which means “Wise.” Weirdly enough, “Frodo” is an actual Proto-Germanic name that actual people used to have and it means the same thing.
“Banazîr” is Westron for “half-wise, or simple.” In Proto Germanic, the prefix “Sam” means half, and wise is obviously a word we still use.
“Razanur” means “Traveler” or “Stranger” which is also the meaning of the word “Peregrin(e)” This one is a twofer because “Razar” means “a small red apple” and in English so does “Pippin.”
“Kalimac” apparently is a meaningless name in Westron, but the shortened form “Kali” means “happy,” so Jirt decided his nickname would be “Merry” and chose the really obscure ancient Celtic name “Meriodoc” to match.
Jirt chose to leave “Bilba” almost exactly the same in English, but he changed the ending to an “O” because in Westron names ending in “a” are masculine.
I’m not going to go on and talk about the last names but those all have special meanings too (except Tûk, which is too iconic to change more than the spelling of, apparently).
The Rohirrim were also Westron speakers first and foremost, so their names are also “translations” into Old English and Proto-Germanic words, i.e. “Eowyn” is a combination of “Eoh” (horse) and “Wynn” (joy/bliss).
“Rohirrim/Rohan” are Sindarin words, but in the books, they call themselves the “Éothéod” which is an Old English/Norse combo that means “horse people.” Tolkien tells us in the “Peoples of Middle Earth” that the actual Westron for “Éothéod” is Lohtûr, which means that Eowyn and Eomer’s names, which come from the same root word, must also start with the letter L.
The names of all the elves, dwarves, Dunedain, and men from Gondor are not English translations, since they come from root words other than Westron.
The takeaway from this is that when a guy whose first real job was researching the history and etymology of words of Germanic origin beginning with the letter “W” writes a book, you can expect this kind of tomfoolery.
Notes: Sorry I said “Razal” instead of “Razar” in my original post I’m a fraud.
Further Reading:
Rohirric , Westron
This is so cool!
But at the same time what I’m getting from this is that when we watch the Peter Jackson films we’re just getting the English dub of the anime.
Just saw someone say "I can't wait until he does something problematic" in response to seeing a musician they don't like
People on this website can't even dislike something in a normal way, like even the state of having a preference for a different artist has to be "I can't wait until I am morally justified and therefore vindicated for my distaste."
Imagine that. "I hope this person hurts others so I can stop hearing about them."
Tumblr poisoned your brain and you're morally bankrupt. Go outside.
kingchillmonger replied to your post “The fact that people still try to compare Gen:lock and Voltron is…”
Gen:LOCK affords LGBT+ the benefit of acknowledging more than just our existence and actually treats us like we deserve a part of every kind of story instead of shoehorning us in due to fan backlash, and just generally cares about its characters so if people wanna know where the similarities end let’s start there lol.
The Hunter’s Nightmare
Christian Boomer comics at Christmas: mean-spirited, a downer, whiny, “yelled about red Starbucks cups” energy
Jewish Boomer comics at Christmas: DELIGHTFUL
I thought for sure these would be the McElroy brothers but I was mistaken
Honestly nothing makes me take Tumblr’s purity culture with a grain of salt like talking to non-Tumblrite LGBTQ+ people and hearing them enthusiastically talk about how some piece of media representation that Tumblr has thoroughly derided as trash was exactly what they needed to learn and accept themselves as people.
Critical lenses are great, but they’re not the only thing people see through, you know?
Why can’t people just have different opinions? Can I say something doesn’t sit right with me without people assuming that I think a piece of media is blatant homophobic propaganda?
I mean the quippy remark is “Not on Tumblr.”
The problem with Tumblr’s echo chamber is that nuanced critiques get repeated and magnified so much that they go from “I enjoyed this movie but I had a problem with this one aspect” to “This movie is bad because of this aspect” to “this movie is aspect-ist, you shouldn’t include it on your rec list” to “you’re aspect-ist because you like this movie.”
Which is how you end up with people saying “Only straight people could enjoy Love Simon” or “Brokeback Mountain is a homophobic piece of shit” and then I get total whiplash when I meet someone IRL who says that Brokeback Mountain is their favourite movie because it convinced them to make peace with their queerness and Love Simon is proof that the world is truly a better place.
Often it’s different people on every shade of the gradient, each holding a position that is just a little bit further out than the next. But on Tumblr, the more extreme takes get more traction than the moderate ones, and the extremists by nature of being extremists tend to claim that anyone who disagrees with them must also hate gay people, puppies, and the idea of happiness itself.
why does anyone in Gotham even bother doing crime like you KNOW the second you leave the bank with the money you just stole Bruce Wayne is gonna be chilling on a bench on the other side of the street in his bat fursuit like “hey bitch u better not be breaking the law”
because batman never bothered attacking the roots of social problems
you know what… you’re right call him out!!
Wayne Enterprises has a jobs program for those who are fresh out of prison. He routinely takes major villains with mental health issues to an asylum where professionals are there to help. Or do you just read the fight scenes?
Because
Batman
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Bothered
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Problems
WHAT THE HELL KIND OF BATMAN HAVE YOU BEEN WATCHING?
Fake geeks, I swear to god…
The best part is that most of the lore, especially Batman: The Animated Series, gets to a point in Batman’s career when everyone asks the question of why someone would rob a bank in Gotham when they know that if they approached Batman, and coincidentally Bruce Wayne, they could get the help they needed.
That’s the whole point of Batman. Granted there have been modernized adaptations that paint him out to be nothing more than a growling, punching, antihero. But nobody ever said those adaptations were canon or even good. The original Batman comics, most of the newer comics, the Animated Series, the animated spinoffs, even the Arkham video games all operate under the lore that Batman does everything within his power to help as many villains as he can, even if it means going against cops, politicians, etc. That’s what originally made him the vigilante. He went against the social norms. He did everything that a hero shouldn’t do, not in a murderous way, but in a taking-sides way. Every other hero swoops in to save the corrupt politician from the criminal. Batman swoops in to save the criminal from the corrupt politician.
How is that renowned Republican brand working for you? The pictures above are a reminder of past and ongoing Republican actions and inaction so that people will remember them when they get ready to vote.
Fuck republicans
I want to vote every single place, expected trump.
How are people rich in their 20s like what is that about
every time i listen to “you’re a mean one mr. grinch” i can’t help but sit there and think “what did the grinch do to hurt you?” because dude just stands there for 2 minutes and 58 seconds and drags the grinch into the dirt
he stole christmas, kayla! stop with your #notallgrinches propaganda!
you know what if someone told me i was a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce i’d probably be bitter enough to steal christmas too
Interestingly, though The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is narrated by Boris Karloff, the big musical number is sung by the late Thurl Ravenscroft - an American voice actor better known as the voice of Tony the Tiger.
My headcanon is that the Grinch and Tony the Tiger had a bad breakup, and “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” is the resulting breakup song.
Did this really HAVE to be the first thing I see when I opened up Tumblr?
Yes.
oh god theres art
@altadude you know what must be done.
ive been avoiding reblogging this honestly but just. What the fuck. What the fuck tumblr
I apologize to all my followers for this
if i had to read this you do too
I have a hate-hate relationship with this
Good grief… I’m sorry, but I can’t not reblog this…
Tis the season bitches
DAMN IT WHY WOULD YOU BRING THIS BACK YOU HEATHEN
Why is this on my dash?
…..I’m.. Bothered? by the fact that I’m not bothered by this.
You’re not bothered?? I’m not only not bothered, I’m freaking invested. I’m having actual empathetic sadness for The Grinch. I want them to go into couple’s counseling. I want the “ten years later” when Tony visits Whoville on business and meets the reformed Grinch whose heart has grown 3 times its usual size. I want them to reminisce over a shared dinner of roast beast and wine, then spend a drunken night together, then realize that maybe things are different and people really do change. I want a 3-act story where there’s a long dark night of soul searching and the realization that maybe we’ve all got a little bit of bad banana with greasy black peel inside us, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make a damned fine banana bread if someone will give us a chance.
Tis the season
Maybe we’ve all got a little bit of bad banana with greasy black peel inside us, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make a damned fine banana bread if someone will give us a chance.
