Wait, they called that unmanned Lunar Lander the Odysseus?
Fucking Odysseus?
The dude who's whole story is getting lost on a journey for a decade?
...there's tempting fate, and there's doing a full striptease on fate's bed.

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Wait, they called that unmanned Lunar Lander the Odysseus?
Fucking Odysseus?
The dude who's whole story is getting lost on a journey for a decade?
...there's tempting fate, and there's doing a full striptease on fate's bed.
The fact that Good Omens S2 was SO QUEER.
Not Just Maggie and Nina (and Lindsey)
Not just Aziraphale and Crowley
Not even just Gabriel and Beelzebub (who is NB)
But the magician shopkeeper and his trans/NB spouse who wore a fancy early 19th century dress to the ball.
Job's son who was flirting with Aziraphale (hilariously played by Ty Tennant giving Michael Sheen heart eyes in front of his dad lmao)
Even the tough macho man in Scotland that Aziraphale borrows the phone from - using it for "Grindr".
Plus of course Michael, Uriel, Muriel, and Dagon also all being non binary/gender queer characters.
With all this, there was no homophobia, no one batted an eyelid at any characters sexualities, sexuality wasn't even brought up, characters just are who they are and like who they like. Its a non issue in the GO universe.
AKA my favourite type of queer representation. The same type found in The Sandman (show not comic).
And whilst there was plenty of drama and not everyone gets a happy queer ending (YET) there was no queer trauma to be seen. No hate crimes, no "bury your gays", no stupid discussions about how HARD it is to be out of the closet in a bigoted world, because the GO world isn't bigoted.
Its SUCH a BREATH OF FRESH AIR.
I know we have similar experiences in The Sandman, In OFMD, and even in WWDITS, but each time a new show takes this very new approach towards queer representation I feel like I'm once again sinking into a comforting hug from someone I love, who loves me back.
Its just really fucking wonderful to see. I hope we keep seeing it more and more often.
I'm generally of the opinion that trying to resurrect prematurely cancelled shows is like necromancy—odds are they'll come back wrong.
Except for Galavant. Any Galavant revivial will be funnier the longer it stayed cancelled.
You know, it's kinda funny how much of high fantasy centers around kings and nobility and courtly intrigue considering that the archetypal high fantasy, Lord of the Rings, had the rather explicit moral of "saving the world is up to this backwater hick and his gardener because no politician, least of all inherited nobility, would have the ability to see past their own ambition and throw away a weapon". Oh sure, Aragorn is a great king and all, but there's a reason he's over there running a distraction ring while the hobbits do the real work. Sauron loses because he gets distracted by kings and armies and great battles (i.e. typical high fantasy stuff) letting Frodo and Sam sneak through his back door and blow it all to hell.
Just saying, maybe old Jirt knew what he was saying when he said that the small folk doing their best and holding to each other was more powerful than a dozen alliances and superweapons and we should respect him for it.
Wtf do u even mean “the thread of prophecy is severed” if the grand design is so fragil as to come unraveled by th severing of a single thread then maybe there’s a better Destiny in store for those who hold tha scissors -_-
I think if he was TRULY essential he woulda had more fire resistance tbh
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Timeline of the First Age – The Silmarillion to the tune of 'We Didn't Start the Fire' by Tim DeMarco (bardofarda)
relevant xkcd
I absolutely love the language of my mother’s people
I believe linguistically the term is called Comparative Reduplication! And while a lot of languages have it, including many Indigenous American ones, Yoruba culture holds a lot of influence over how Black Diaspora and AAVE have been shaped. It’s a good video.
This is SO COOL thank you for sharing this!
the other day I was telling a friend about how much I enjoy Tolkien's work but when I got to the Silmarillion I accidentally said 'I love the silmarils'.
call that a feanorian slip
me: I’m tired of hot takes
also me: I think the biggest reason I don’t accept the published Silm as canon in any form, actually, is because Christopher will just invent entirely new characterizations for people and then unless you read the unedited drafts or the ancillary material you don’t realize he’s totally misrepresented his dad’s characterization choices. There’s two really obvious examples of this and like ten others I can think of immediately. In this essay I will -
@carlandrea , @sengawolf - off the top of my head (short bullet points, will provide further information if requested, but most of this is on my blog in some form or another):
Túrin is treated completely differently in the full-length The Children of Húrin and the drafts that made it up (Unfinished Tales is where most of that is). In the Silm he’s presented as arrogant, overpoweringly belligerent, aggressive, and mean-spirited. There’s even a passage about how Orodreth was afraid to countermand his orders in Nargothrond. In the drafts and the novel he’s kind to the powerless, chivalrous toward multiple women (including saving someone from sexual violence and putting a stop to that sort of thing in the spaces where he lives), and is massively popular and well-liked in Nargothrond with only Gwindor disliking him. Everyone who’s in his chapter gets more development in their actual own story, including antagonistic figures like Mîm and Andróg, both for good and ill.
Haleth has an all-female bodyguard squad and her people maintain their militaristic tendencies after her death.
Míriel is the inventor of the concept of sewing, and is the reason fitted clothes exist for the elves
Maeglin as he exists in the drafts is popular in Gondolin, considered handsome and charismatic and a supremely eligible bachelor whose House is fanatically loyal to him. He’s politically savvy, and seen as an equal on the council of lords, able to argue on the spot for a change of battle plans during the early stages of the attack on the city, and everyone accepts and agrees with his points. He’s stated in the Quenta (Shaping of Middle-Earth) to be “loved and trusted” by Turgon. The only person who dislikes him is Idril, specifically because he’s disrespectful of her personal space and constantly pining after her and sending her mental messages that are the equivalent of those “send nudes” texts you see from certain types of guys on the Internet. According to the Quenta the actual reason Turgon didn’t want them to marry was because he suspected his nephew didn’t actually love her but instead wanted to use their marriage for political gain. There’s absolutely nothing in any of the drafts about his desire for her being considered gross or incestuous, or about him being unpopular, or about him feeling cut off from his father’s culture or being traumatized by his childhood.
I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t mention the straightwashing - the absence of the green stone that Fingon received from Maedhros + all of the various statements or decisions or parallels made to reflect the significance of their relationship, Gil-galad being Fingon’s son, and the removal of the kisses Beleg and Túrin shared. If you read the Silm you’ll come to the conclusion that all these people were heterosexual.
In all the drafts I can think of but one Maglor commits suicide by drowning to parallel Maedhros’s suicide by volcano, and is not mentioned by Tolkien as being any sort of last survivor
Galadriel is a significantly more morally ambiguous figure in her earliest appearances, with Tolkien progressively making her more and more Correct and Pure; her Silm version is somewhere between her earliest and latest appearances but it’s still worth mentioning
I am not arguing that people who adopt Silm characterizations or Silm-based headcanons etc are wrong. It’s important to me that I make that clear because anyone can do what they want to do and all headcanons and fanworks are important and equally welcome in the fandom, death to elitism, etc. But that’s a significant part of why I, personally, cannot analyze or work with the Silm as canonical rather than as a good introduction to the broader Legendarium - there’s too many changes, and so much of what’s there just doesn’t tell the full story or actively misrepresents it.
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saw this thread and really loved it but what i liked most is that it taught this kid that if a book isn’t for you, even if you really want to like it, it’s okay to stop reading it and come back to it another time when you are ready. there were so many books i slogged through as a kid because i felt like i had to prove that i could read them since i *loved* reading so i simply had to finish this book or i didn’t actually love to read. silly, really. the more kids who don’t ascribe to that thinking the better. really great of both the dad and the librarian for giving the kid access to the stephen king book and allowing him make the decision on whether or not it was for him by himself.
go OFF queen
You know what would make a GREAT plot twist? Fidelity.
And yes I mean in the context of romantic relationships, but not only in the context of romantic relationships. Or did AND ROHAN WILL ANSWER mean nothing to you?