local aroace

your average manly muppet, i have good taste she/they

[tropicalaromacake]

I’ve decided to paint profile portraits until I reach 100 of them. Here are the first five, all from The Fellowship of the Ring.

[melissshit]

I love the young, full of anxiety and doubts Film!Frodo and I love the more mature, full of melancholy Book!Frodo. They are both my sons.

[mgcoco]

The Party Tree 🌳🎉

[ehohadele]

with grandpa <3

[gracehaa]

I have a friend who watches the Lord of the Rings trilogy with me every year, and its always great, but she never fails to end it by calling Sam the "real hero."

and while I think Sam is obviously a hero throughout the series, I hate the wording of "real" hero, bc I know she's coming from a place of seeing frodos character as weak and failing.

I think Tolkien said it best in letter #246:

"Frodo undertook his quest out of love to save the world he knew from disaster at his own expense, if he could; and also in complete humility, acknowledging that he was wholly inadequate to the task. His real contract was only to do what he could, to try to find a way, and to go as far on the road as his strength of mind and body allowed. He did that. I do not myself see that the breaking of his mind and will under demonic pressure after torment was any more a moral failure than the breaking of his body would have been say, by being strangled by Gollum, or crushed by a falling rock."

viewing frodos inability to rid himself of the ring at the end of it all as a failure, in my opinion, completely misses the point of frodos character and his internal struggles.

and while I will always consider Sam a hero, calling him the "real hero" feels like it implies that frodo is a failed hero. I don't feel like either character would be a hero without the other.

[nothingf-i-s-h-yhere]

You know what?

Fuck you.

*turns all of your canon relationships into qpr*

Since no one wants to do aroace rep I’ll just do it myself

[fatallyaddictedtofiction]

INTERACT WITH THIS IF YOU ARE AROACE BECAUSE WHY ARE THERE SO MANY OF US HERE

[transmechanicus]

‘You should only send hearts to ppl you’re romantically involved with’

WRONG! BOUNDLESS PLATONIC LOVE, WARMTH, AND ENTHUSIASM BE UPON YE!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[aromanticofficial]

official aromantic post

[aarch-aangel]

they aro on my ace until I platonic attraction

[sparrow956]

This has to be the single most aromantic thing I’ve googled in my life

[oh-god-this-was-a-bad-idea]

As an aroace person, friend crushes are INSANE. And I don’t mean this like “oh I want my friend romantically” I mean like “I need to be this person’s friend so bad they are so cool!!!!” Like there’s this mutual I have on tiktok who I have been sending cat stickers to back and forth all day. The day we have an actual conversation about something will be the day I’ve won. Like is this how allos feel when they have romantic crushes on people???

[our-asexual-experience]

I hate how “sleeping with someone” means having sex with them because I want to literally sleep with someone and cuddle and feel comfy and safe without people thinking we had sex

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh

God yeah it's so dumb. And it's like, some siblings sleep in the same bed together but most people don't think that's weird, why do they immediately take it sexually the moment it isn't with people who are related? :/

Sleeping together can be sexual sure, but it can also be romantic or platonic or anything else or nothing at all. Why is it always assumed sexually

[im-not-a-l0ser]

Look… I had an idea and ran with it.

[arson-jellyfish]

AI disturbance overlays for those who don't have Ibis paint premium. found them on tiktok

[quitetheweirdegg]

how do you use these?

[arson-jellyfish]

Put these on the top layer above everything, set layer to 'overlay' then adjust opacity. You can put it on whatever opacity you want but usually 30%+ is most effective.

The point is to obstruct the picture so AI can't read your image because AI counts every single pixel in your art

[arson-jellyfish]

By this post alone, in less than 5 hours.

I need you all to calm the fuck down

[skylarkking]

NEEDED AND NO WE WONT THIS IS BRILLIANT

[bees-official]

Art people pls use this

[pilkypills]

Bilbo "cope with trauma by publishing it" Baggins

[joel-jacket]

What a horrible man

[inaccessiblitykilledchaoticbuggy]

I am. So normal. So fuckign norrmal. About local dirtbag British boyband. Bears in Trees