Bits and Pieces

Jordan: Melina Marchetta is my everything. GRYFFINCLAW{ wear }

[carbomcoco]

I am utterly captivated by this video series that Taryn Delanie and friends have been making on TikTok

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

I do not want the ai overview. I want to read six wikipedia pages as god intended.

[ekjohnston]

I finally donated to Wikipedia this year. I usually donate to something more "food for children", but it's different now. We can't lose it.

[shamebats]

Did they task the vampires with hanging up the flags 😭

[cardaminegreen]

A very scientific rating for Moon River as of ep 4:

Wife Guy Vibes: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Angst: 🤧🤧🤧.5

Psycho Villains: ✔️✔️✔️✔️

Chemistry: 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Hurt/Comfort: ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

Shirtless scenes: 🆎🆎🆎

[homunculus-argument]

"14 servings per package" listen man if you invite 13 people over to your house, buy a single "party size" bag of chips, and then you and all your guests each eat seven (7) chips and go "hmm, that was enough, I am satisfied! :)" then I'm coming into your house, and inhaling every single one of you and swallowing you without chewing like a baleen whale filtering krill.

[jokeboy-deactivated20260221]

I dropped my phone in the shower and the water opened up instagram and changed my fucking PRONOUNS?????

[sanitymakesposts]

isekai title

[str8aura-no-not-that-one]

[sunsetbuddie]

hey so anyone else just, feel thin. sort of stretched. like butter scraped over too much bread. like you need a holiday. a very long holiday. and you don't expect you shall return? or is that just me and bilbo baggins

[guinevereteef]

I'm trying to sleep and the bugs outside are buzzing at a certain cluster of wavelengths that reads to my brain as a human voice and whenever I let my focus shift it jumps to trying to hear what the gnat king has to say

[guinevereteef]

I closed my window

[maniculum]

Refusal of the Call - TV Tropes

The character, typically the hero, receives a Call to Adventure but at first refuses for some reason. Events then conspire to force them to

[only-tiktoks]

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

The girls are exeeerrrcising

[bringbackgoth]

don't hide your tags bestie this is so cute

[podcastwizard]

some royal jewels were stolen from the louvre which is unfortunate for historical reasons but you gotta appreciate a classic crime. so many crimes are online these days it’s nice to see heist culture is still alive

[fyeahgothicromance]

[quasi-normalcy]

Everyone's thinking "witch" but the owl was actually going as a cowboy.

[adamsmasher]

Iirc the original images are from years ago, and everyone was worried that the owl was actually stuck to the toy - but apparently the townspeople had seen him put it down to hunt and such, and then go back to pick it up again. Which straight up triples my enjoyment of this story.

[homunculus-argument]

Just got a spam bot message in my inbox about needing donations for a child with "acute kidney failure and chronic autism". Like really. You're asking for money to fix autism on a website where nobody has money and everybody has autism. Chronic autism.

[kdhumecurios]

There was a massive shift in how our culture understood morality when, after World War II, the general public realized “just following orders” was not an excuse for crimes against humanity. Now we need another moral shift in which we decide, as a culture, that “for the benefit of the stockholders” is not an excuse for anything.

[speciesofleastconcern]

We kind of need to relearn the “just following orders” part again

[notkatniss]

[notkatniss]

taylor swift would release a 30th special edition of the tortured poets department to block the vampire lestats spot on the billboard chart and within 24 hrs travis kelce would go missing

[senatortedcruz]

[segamascott]

i would get out and VOTE

[so-much-for-subtlety]

create a safe space for queer voices

[renslice]

engage in peaceful protest and boycott labubu for 1 day

[tanoraqui]

it’s just hard not to think about the fact that in 1915, JRR Tolkien went to war not with but certainly in the same army and many of the same battles as his 3 best school friends, all nicely upper class young men who had never known much loss, and only he and one other came back alive - and a couple decades later, he wrote a book in which 3 nicely upper class young men (and one very excellent gardener) who have never known much loss go to war together, or at least they start out together, and they all come home alive. (Though one cannot bear it, and does not stay.)

[meerius]

What more it wasn’t just losing his friends, he was a commanding officer of a battalion of working class men. All farmers and miners from the same area of Lancashire. He felt affinity for them, but wasn’t allowed to socialize between the ranks due to military protocol and he hated it. 

 "The most improper job of any man ... is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity."

I don’t think it was even 6 months later that he contracted trench fever and was sent home. 

His entire command was wiped out in one charge shortly after, the majority of a whole countryside’s youths slaughtered while he survived. Youths who were brave and steadfast, but thought of as lesser than their superior officers while still being the ones carrying the actual battle. Youths who deserved fellowship, respect, and above all to go home and dance with their own Rosie.

“My Sam Gamgee is indeed a reflection of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself”. 

[seriousfic]

[themightyglamazon]

TRIES NOT TO CRY

[jenniferrpovey]

There is a reason Frodo, who represents the English gentry, in the end falls and is caught by Samwise, who represents the common man.

But there is a soldier in Lord of the Rings who does not come back, and I don’t mean Boromir.

I mean the being who was a common hobbit, but who became corrupted by darkness and poison, who’s face is described in ways reminiscent of a gas mask.

The soldier who doesn’t come home, who is poisoned by gas and stress and insanity.

Is Gollum.

[sniperct]

The Lord of the Rings repeatedly stresses the horrors of war. Eowyn's entire arc is about the truth of warfare versus the way it's glorified. She starts out glorifying war and combat and soldiers, even when her own brother is telling her war sucks and is terrible. And then in the end, she sees first hand what war does to people.

Aragorn's entire arc isn't to be the steadfast hero saving the day, it's to hold the line in terror and horror and blood while the overlooked folk are the people who save the world. And then, what makes him a king, is not his skill in battle, but his healing hands.

Which then ties into both Eowyn and Faramir's arcs. Eowyn goes into healing not because she's a weak and meek woman, but because war is horrible and saving lives is better than taking them. Aragorn is glorified within the text for his healing, and so is Eowyn.

Also, tying into the common man thing, in the movies it's Faramir but in the books it's SAMWISE who questions what brings a man so far from home to fight in a war and if he is really so different.

LOTR is anti-war propaganda.

[grier-the-goblin-deactivated202]

"LOTR is anti-war propaganda"

All good war stories are