justlurkinghere

Sometimes, there are words in my brain. Sometimes, I even share them here. Sometimes, I just lurk and reblog and there are no words in me.

[hjaoworld]

I cannot believe that I’ve only thought of this after almost a decade of being in the Harry Potter fandom, but… 

The Moon Landing happened in 1969.

One year before The First Wizarding War started. 

It happened during summer.

Just imagine, on the first of September, all of the muggleborns and even some half-bloods talking up a storm about The Moon Landing. 

Some pure-blood fanatic bullying a muggleborn and them just responding with: “For all your superiority, has any pure-blood actually been to the bloody Moon? No? Well, the muggles have!” And the pure-bloods of course don’t want to believe them, so the Muggleborn is like: “I have receipts!” and just slams a stack of newspapers with the articles about Apollo 11.

Now of course, the pure-bloods completely deny that stupid muggles without magic could have gone to the Moon. 

It is now my headcannon that that’s how the conspiracy theories about The Mood Landing being fake are started. The pure-bloods keep denying it so hard, it leaks into the muggle world.

[systlin]

GIVEN that Tilion was, before he took up the position of steering the moon in the Legendarium, a maia of Orome, I put foward that we cannot actually rule out that Celegorm has fucked the moon. Or, of course, that the moon has fucked Celegorm.

[camille-lachenille]

"average high king of the noldor rules for 867 years" factoid actualy just statistical error. average high king rules for 213 years. Ereinion Gil-Galad, who ruled for 3521 years and didn't 1v1 Evil incarnate, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[primarybufferpanel]

AU where the Ent wives were indeed living in the Shire, so when Saruman arrived there to make mischief he immediately got his shit wrecked by yet more walking talking trees

[giftandhisoaks]

@afannishknitter your tags deserve to be part of this post

[tilliusdiy]

I Need to learn to weave Right Now

[tilliusdiy]

I Need to learn to weave I Need to I Need to I simply Must learn to weave. what the fuck will I do with any of the weavings? who on earth knows but I Must Learn

[summoningspark]

Good news! If you have string you can learn to weave for $0! You just have to be crazy enough to design and build a loom out of trash!

If you have sufficient hubris you don't even have to look anything up ahead of time. You can figure it out as you go

[gallusrostromegalus]

Fun Fact: You can actually pick up any fibercraft with sufficient hubris and willingness to repurpose random crap. In fact, I think the high degree of hubris and willingness to repurpose objects for uses their creators, nature and god never intended is ESSENTIAL to any fibercraft.

[wisestgirl42]

In honor of watching LOTR for the first time.. I present this meme. The first thing that went through my head when I seen Sam use the frying pan as a weapon

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[consultingpacha]

The Veiled King files!

Hello everyone! The Veiled King is officially done, so I wanted to give you guys a silly little something, in case you want to give a try to your bookbinding skills. I have prepared a printable edition of the fic, since I wanted to try and have a printed copy for myself. You can download the files for free here, ready to print, so you can bookbind it at home!

Please remember to respect the fact that fanfic is non profit. If I find anyone making inappropriate usage of these files, I will take them down.

Have fun! Pacha

[overlord-of-fantasy]

Crackship wheel part 16

Today's crackship is:

Elladan x Durin's Bane

This crackship is...

...BRILLIANT! The world needed this!

...Hot! Vey hot!

...Fun to watch explode...

...Okay

...Boring

...Bad

...really uncomfortable to think about

...HORRIBLE! Why did my poor eyes have to see this?

...Actually not a crackship and should be canon. Almost OTP material.

Voting ended onJul 14, 2025

[hjaoworld]

I am looking at this poll and can't decide how to answer.

You see, my real answer to this question is: "HORRIBLE! Why did my poor eyes have to see this?"

However, considering that one of the pair is Durin's Bane, a "flame demon", I really want to answer: "Hot! Very hot!"

[randomtheidiot]

Pretty much every other species of domesticated animal is easy to explain, such as cows and sheep being livestock, horses being a mode of transport and cats scaring away pests, but if aliens aver visited, I wonder how we'd explain to them that the reason we have dogs is because we competed with wolves for resources due to filling the same niche of large, pack hunting persistence predator, but then we decided to be hunting partners instead, even though wolves were large, dangerous and hard to manage.

[girlrustcohle]

fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this

[hjaoworld]

Ah yes. The depressing realisation that Future Me will not exist unless Current Me starts actively working towards becoming Future Me. Unless the hard work happens, I will forever be Current Me, just in the future.

[biglawbear]

I finished reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time in my life. With all of *vague gesture at everything* this going on.

I Am Not Okay

[biglawbear]

You have to understand. I watched the movies maybe once as a kid when they came out twenty years ago. I've somehow avoided learning like anything about these books my entire life. Literally everything about these books was a complete unknown and surprise to me. Totally blank slate going on. I barely even knew how it ended.

Holy shit.

[biglawbear]

Frodo didn't complete his task. Sam literally carried him up Mount Doom. And when he got to the end, he couldn't throw the Ring away.

But for Gollum biting it off with his finger, it wouldn't have been destroyed.

So Frodo's journey saved the world nonetheless.

And it broke him.

It was too much for him to bear. He could no longer live in the Shire or live in Middle-Earth. He wasn't of the world anymore. He had to go to the Undying Lands.

He took on the task that no one else would. He saved the world. Everyone got a happy ending. Aragorn became King, Sam rebuilt the Shire, Merry and Pippin became heroes. They all lived in renown.

But Frodo had the hardest task of all. No one else would do it. A simple hobbit who came by the Ring by chance. Not a King, not an immortal. Not a wizard. No power save his will and his friends. And he did it and saved everyone.

And he never got to rest. He never got to remain in peace. The task destroyed him. It was too much.

But there was no other way. Nobody but a simple hobbit could bear the ring all the way to Mount Doom and resist its power so long. Not a man, not an elf, not a wizard; they would have succumbed. Gandalf knew this, which was why he chose the hobbits in all his designs.

It's amazing that one of the precedent setting works in the fantasy genre holds up so well because it subverts what ultimately became the genre's core tropes. The hero was not the King, or a chosen one. In fact, the hero not being the King was a key point that allowed Aragorn to distract Sauron and allow the task in the first place. The hero was someone unassuming but courageous, who did the thing because no one else would, even though it was just by chance he came upon it.

But Frodo couldn't resist the Ring completely. He wasn't superior to anyone else in that way. And in the end it left him broken. The burden crushed him. No one else could do it, and in the end, he couldn't either. He wasn't so special that he was invulnerable.

I'm not okay. Holy fuck you guys.

[biglawbear]

It's been a week and I'm still not over this, I'll never get over this.

Something that I've been thinking about, as I struggle with depression and anxiety and *another vague gesture at everything* is that LOTR does not criticize Frodo for being broken. It does not shame him or deny him what he needs.

The task was too much and it broke him and that's okay. His friends nonetheless take care of him and let him go with understanding. The book doesn't treat it as a bad thing.

This seems to be a theme throughout the books. The characters rest and heal. They spend time recovering in Rivendell, Fangorn, Lorien, Ithilien. It's treated as good and necessary. They don't heroically endure endless torment from the second they set out until they're done.

And in Gondor's march from Minas Tirith to Mordor, Aragorn recognizes that some of the very few men he's taking with him don't have the heart to go to battle against the Enemy. And he says that's okay. He gives them other tasks the they can do. They hold other strategic points. They aren't shamed for not going all the way, or kicked out, or told that they aren't manly or whatever. Their limitations are recognized and respected. The task was too big and it was okay that they couldn't do it.

I don't know man. I've held on through some absolutely crazy shit. White knuckled through mental health crises when my doctors were begging me to take a break, to go to the hospital before I hurt myself. My therapist has tried to slow me down and tell me that I've been going through it and it's understandable that I am feeling some kind of way. Even one of my colleagues remarked that I've had an absolutely fucking wild career and that I've seen more as a lawyer of seven years than she has as a lawyer of forty. But I've gotten it into my head that I have to be strong, I have to be independent.

Fuck me, man, I'm currently white knuckling through life and hanging on by a fucking thread. A few weeks ago I was about an hour away from checking myself in to a mental health facility until my best friends swooped in to help me. And then I went right back to work.

And then I read this book. This fucking brilliant and beautiful book written by a man who had seen the horrors of war and spilled it all over the page. And I read it for the first time as an adult with full understanding and experience of what it all means. And it hits me like a fucking truck.

And it says that you can't endure everything. That at some point you need to rest and heal. That if you take on too much you will break. And that all of that is okay.

How am I supposed to move on with my life after reading this?

[three--rings]

Certainly there are many messages within Lord of the Rings, but you have to think that Tolkien would have been happy that this message in particular was still being conveyed all these years later.

[hjaoworld]

Important!

[frodosrings]

i’m so sick of his stupid ass what the hell is he doing

[unabashedllamamusic]

I’ve been on a Silmarillion kick lately, and I’m doing my annual rewatch of the extended editions. It only took me like five years to realize Gollum and Maedhros have the same fate. They finally recover the cursed jewelry they’ve spent 500 years obsessing over, only to fall into lava and fucking die. Tolkien loves to make the first and third ages rhyme. Gollum’s even a kinslayer!

[hjaoworld]

I will be processing this for the next 5 years 😅

[pastelsugar6w6]

i love the idea of Elrond aggressively saving Maglor from his 2 Ages-long pity-party. Elrond finds him vibing miserably on the beach and wants to bring him back to Imladris. Maglor declines for he is in exile for all his wrongdoings. He has yet to truly repent for the kinslayings, the kidnapping and the oathbreaking. Ere shall he sing upon these desolate shores until the end of days as his recompense for the misery he wrought.

Well, alright then. Elrond kidnaps him from the beach. Maybe he actually has Glorfindel tie Maglor to the back of a horse for the authenticity. A kinslayer can hardly be allowed to wander free where he may commit more dastardly deeds. He shall be kept incarcerated in Imladris for the forseeable future. Also here's the first warm meal Maglor's had in a century and a nice change of clothes. What do you mean prisoners shouldn't be given free reign of the house and a bed in the family wing? Elrond is merely treating Maglor as ruthlessly as he and Maedhros treated him as a child. Also here's your grandchildren, they're so excited to meet their grandfather and I demand thee to tell them stories and sing them songs or else dessert will be halved after dinner.

[hjaoworld]

I want to read this

[sleepymccoy]

So as CMO he's gotta have a grasp of the specifics of care delivery living in a working ship. Like, the nurses and other doctors can get away with expert medical knowledge but McCoy has to understand the rest of the ship in some detail. Holistically

Like, he needs to understand when an engineering emergency fix is risky because it might fry the cables, or if it's risky cos it might maim the technician. And it's better for everyone if he's already mobilising an onsite medical crew before Kirk thinks to prompt him

He also needs to have some idea of how physically demanding different jobs are. Like, if Sulu has a broken hand can he operate the control? Probably not. But he could do it with a broken foot. But yeoman Rand runs around all day, she can't get the same 'light duties' medical clearance to do her job with a broken foot. He understands what light duties are for every role on the ship, because these crew can't be trusted to self report accurately. They all wanna work

This results in McCoy hanging out wherever there's something interesting going on - like heading to the Bridge when medbay's quiet - to learn what the different alerts and codes mean in terms of medical impact. He also spends time down in the engine room, getting an idea of what the work is like there. To onlookers he appears to be shooting the shit with Scotty, but he's there learning. And while he couldn't do the work, he knows exactly what the work requires

He doesn't closely track every crewman's wellbeing, that would be excessive. Theres other doctors and nurses to keep an eye on them, and he trusts them. But he tracks the overall arcs. Three more infectious illnesses then last week, nothing the computer would notice but they're all in botany so we're vaccinating the botany staff and investigating cause there. This month we're down on accidental bumps and cuts in shuttles, but had one significant injury so medical is advising the captain to maintain increased mandatory training. Spock and Kirk are still overdue for their physicals, so McCoy needs two days of light duties to focus on wrangling them

He's also their best trauma surgeon, so sometimes he's inaccessible for six hours cos an ensign mangled their elbow in a Jeffries tube

[erumelde]

Éomer: What’s the plan?

Aragorn: The plan is we win.

Éomer: Solid. Let’s ride.

[hjaoworld]

This happened. What do you mean incorrect quote.

[yaoiblackmold]

I absolutely love the casting for the AOS movies because yeah Chris Pine kinda looks like a yassified Jim Kirk, and Zachary Quinto does look like a younger Spock. But then they looked at big, tall, broad shouldered, muscular action man Karl Urban and went. Yeah, I think he can play scrawny bean pole shrimp postured, looks like a light gust of wind would blow him away, Leonard McCoy. And by god, were they correct because it was like the spirit of Deforest Kelley himself possessed him to play Bones.