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mikkeneko

my wife: so I heard that you and the little man took a trip downtown today :)

me: yeah haha

my wife: you guys saw a marching band, huh?

me: uh

my wife: he said you got kind of intense about his career prospects

guerrillatech

idontknownothin

It’s not even “no slavery = no chocolate,” it’s just “no slavery = more expensive chocolate” so yeah no objections from me personally on this one

beaniebaneenie

And the thing about “more expensive chocolate” is that it doesn’t even have to be more expensive to the CUSTOMERS…

It could be more expensive to the producers (Nestle) instead of passing on the extra cost to the people eating chocolate.

Nestle makes roughly $90 billion in profit every year. That’s pure profit.

They could stop using slavery, and still make upwards of $60 billion in profit every fucking year, and the consumer price of chocolate wouldn’t change at all.

But despite the fact that $60B is still a comically absurd amount of money and that they literally cannot spend it all, Nestle refuses to stop using slavery, and claims that if they did stop, consumers would have to pay more…. Y'know, in order to make sure they didn’t “lose” that extra $30B in profit.

🙄

funnytwittertweets

prinzessin

“You say ‘amateur’ as if it was a dirty word. ‘Amateur’ comes from the Latin word ‘amare’, which means to love. To do things for the love of it.”

— Mozart in the Jungle (via meanwhileinfillory)

noctude

sorry professor i did not do this asisgnemtn becuase i was too sad! NO consequences please. goodbye

sadiepickles

I literally cannot overstate how important creative hobbies are when dealing with mental illness. If you can’t draw, there are coloring books. If you can’t write a novel, you can write in short journaling bursts. If you can’t sing in the shower, you can listen to music. Sometimes with mental illness it feels like we have this dark presence inside of us that is bumping around in our brain and organs, causing problems. It helps immensely to let it out.

kimseokjinsthighs

“I still get the looks in the corridors sometimes. I can tell much of the crew is wondering why someone so young isn’t back at the Academy, earning his stripes. I still hear mention of ‘the kid’ and I know who they are talking about. All I can do is what I have done my whole life: prove them wrong. The captain’s faith in me gives me hope. I will continue to do everything I can to continue to earn his trust.”

— Chekov’s Audio Log #2, Star Trek (the game) (xx)

kimseokjinsthighs

Triangles are my favorite shape; three points where two lines meet

park-chan-yall

TW // blood

Bloodletting

sapphire-burns

hilarioushumorfromouterspace

charlesoberonn

I like this meme because the stock photos make it seem like the same woman but 10 years older.

suga-ssi

Maknae line huggles for Suga hyungiiieee~~~

#taegi

young-jae

i’m 0.2 seconds away from putting him in my pocket and keeping him forever

#park jimin

twixnmix

Eartha Kitt photographed by Carl Van Vechten on October 19, 1952.

overthinkinglotr

My favorite thing about Bilbo’s adventures is that there’s technically no “”canon”” version of Bilbo’s adventures.

Like The Hobbit– the book– is canonically a very biased account of events written by Bilbo himself. It’s also Canon that some of things Bilbo wrote were flat-out-lies (Ex. the original version of Riddles in the Dark, where Gollum willingly gives him the Ring as a gift.)

In the books Frodo also says that Bilbo “always jokes about serious things”, makes light of things that were actually important to him or hurt him. Which obviously also puts the bright, jokey tone of The Hobbit in a new light

So the question of…what really did happen, and what was its real effect on Bilbo? Is up in the air. And the only sources you have to piece it together are 1. a ridiculously biased account that’s mostly true but also contains who-knows-how-many lies and half-truths, told by an unreliable narrator aggressively determined to Laugh It All Off, and 2. a few random snippets, some that agree with Bilbo’s account and some that contradict them

frustratedasatruar

(Ex. the original version of Riddles in the Dark, where Gollum willingly gives him the Ring as a gift.)

I seriously love how Tolkien handled that. For those who don’t know, when Tolkien was writing The Lord of The Rings he realized he was going to have to alter a few details of The Hobbit to make sure the continuity smoothed out the way he was obsessively compelled to ensure. Which is to say that there was a slightly revised reprint of The Hobbit shortly before Fellowship came out, with the main change being the Riddle Contest.

But Tolkien didn’t want to leave returning fans who’d reread their old copies of the Hobbit to be left confused! So when Bilbo and Gandalf are discussing the Ring, Bilbo, our kind, reliable narrator who lead us through the entire first novel in Middle Earth, Bilbo remembers the original version. But Gandalf? Wise Gandalf who greatly helped Bilbo and the dwarves through the first half of their journey? Gandalf remembers the version from the recent reprint.

New readers who’d only ever read the reprint get the surprise jolt of Bilbo clearly remembering his story incorrectly, lending strong credence to Gandalf’s concerns.

Old readers who knew the original? Get the horrifying moment of Gandalf disputing the story they read and Bilbo remembers. Bilbo’s not just remembering his story wrong, he copied it down wrong. Is Gandalf lying? Is Bilbo? Was Bilbo wrong about more? They don’t know! The only thing they can say for certain is that whatever is going on, it is a Big Deal.

Which just might be the best conceivable way to handle needing to retcon part of your story.