Because you are worth it💕
Peter Solarz
tumblr dot com
🪼

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
noise dept.

#extradirty
NASA
KIROKAZE
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open

Product Placement
Not today Justin
Stranger Things

❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
One Nice Bug Per Day
i don't do bad sauce passes

titsay
d e v o n
trying on a metaphor

JVL

seen from Türkiye

seen from Singapore

seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from Malaysia

seen from Singapore

seen from Türkiye
seen from Singapore
seen from United States

seen from Malaysia

seen from Malaysia
seen from United States

seen from Singapore
seen from United States
seen from United States
@ladylachesis
Because you are worth it💕
As someone who took etiquette lessons, politeness is an incredibly effective tool for disarming bigots. You can either force them to reconsider their words/actions by directly and calmly confronting their behavior (by using the rules of society in your favor), or you can dip entirely while they appear to be in the wrong.
Both options are great.
Because the thing is, when bigots pick fights, they are 100% counting on you to get louder than them. Or meaner. They want you to react emotionally and provide fodder for their 'You're Too Emotionally Immature To Understand' cannon.
What they aren't expecting you to do is say one of the following phrases in a polite, concerned tone:
Are you okay?
That's not the kind of language I was raised to use with others.
Do you need a moment to think on why that wasn't acceptable?
This is no way to engage in intelligent conversation. Please try that again in a kinder tone if you'd like this to continue. (I really like this one because it lets you turn their public-shame rhetoric around)
For those of you who'd are spiteful and/or dealing with Fundamentalists/Evangelicals/generally shitty Christians:
What's happening in your life to cause you this much anger? I can't imagine hurting so badly that I need to hurt other people.
Who taught you it was acceptable to treat other people this way? Certainly not the Jesus I remember.
Whatever happened to 'judge not lest ye be judged'?
If I talked like that in front of my parents or grandparents I would be ashamed.
I think there's something you need to pray on before we try and have this conversation.
And my all time favorite:
"It sounds to me like there are some seriously dark and angry forces at work in your heart."
(Nothing stops a Christian bigot in their tracks faster than implying the Devil is causing their bigotry. But you MUST be calm, polite, and gentle with your tone and wording. It is absolutely fair to twist the rules and play them at their own game, but you gotta play hard.)
TLDR: It's much faster to use etiquette, politeness, and rhetoric reversal when eviscerating idiots online and in person, because they aren't expecting you to weaponize their behaviors back in their direction. Don't get angry, get spitefully polite! :)
I once witnessed a very soft-spoken young Southern man take a hateful older woman’s hands gently in his and say “Sister, I am so sorry that the Devil has carved a home for hatred in your heart. I’ll pray for you.”
It was glorious.
This works with all sorts of inappropriate behavior. I work as the archivist in a public library, so I end up on the reference desk a lot, and sometimes patrons will say or do things that aren't exactly appropriate. When patrons try to hit on me, I put on a teacher voice and calmly ask, "Is that an appropriate question to ask someone at work?" and it shuts them down immediately.
This sort of thing always does the trick.
Seriously though I imagine that Hobbits are like masters of the polite fiction. They clearly love to gossip and tell tales, but they also really love the idea of nothing actually disrupting their leisurely, quiet lives, so you figure when they decide that not talking about something is required to do that, nobody talks about it. They pick themselves a nice little delusion and by god they stick to it.
Like this other thought I had once was that there’s this Dwarf that used to come by and visit Bilbo, probably one of the many cousins and relations of Thorin’s Company. And he kind of falls in love with the Shire and is like “That’s it, I’m retiring here.”
A Dwarf. Living in the Shire.
People don’t emigrate to the Shire. It’s not done! Hobbits can move from one part of the Shire to another, but you don’t have something else entirely move to it from outside of it!
Except it would be abominably, beastly rude to actually tell him that. “No, you can’t live here”, what, are we animals? Beasts? Orcs? Plus, uh, he’s kind of fucking rich. Like, really rich. Like he just plunked down a good three times what a hill is actually worth because he says it has “good bones”.
So everyone decides, for the sake of the peace, for the sake of their own minds…
… he is a Hobbit.
Hairiest Hobbit you ever saw. With a weirdly deep hole. Yeah people have been in that sucker and it just keeps. Going. Down. A weird distance down. Lot of stonework. But that there is Mr. Talbin Ironnails the Hobbit. Mm-hmm. Oh, the beard’s just a bit of an eccentricity, don’t mind him.
Need some metalwork done? Why, you want ol’ Talbin! Best Hobbit you’ve ever seen with a hammer and tongs. Dwarf? No, no, who ever heard of a Dwarf living in the Shire! That’s just old Talbin! Bit on the tall side, but don’t be intimidated at all.
Oh dear, wolves you say? Well, let’s go ask ol’ Talbin if he can take care of it. Once took a wolf’s head clean off with what we’re very sure was a very fancy woodsman’s axe, what with the long metal haft and two heads. Must have a bit of Took in him, does ol’ Talbin. Explains why he’s so odd, eh? Eh?
Beer? Drink you under the table, ol’ Talbin will! Why, some say he has the constitution of a Dwarf, ha ha ha! HE’S NOT THOUGH.
Between this and the “half goblin, half hobbit” post going around, I have to wonder how odd the Took ancestor’s “fairy” wife must have been that people actually remarked on her.
#some took just fucking married an elf
#the right elf will marry anyone #just ask #luthien #and her dad Thingol #and her many times great granddaughter #Arwen #actually maybe it's just that family line #oh no wait #almost forgot Idril #I might be forgetting others #not a JRRT scholar #tbh tho the Tooks sound like fun #there are worse families to marry into I'm sure
The photo is not very good and I still need to wash and iron it, but I couldn't wait to show my first ever big cross stitch project;
Love how it turned out, especially with the green embroidery thread (cotton thread on linen)
So gorgeous
Teenage dwarf.
Some doodles.
Been falling down a bit of a Hunger Games rabbit hole (it’s in the air I guess) and I think it’s interesting how there is this defensive tendency to dismiss love and romance as the more silly or inconsequential aspects of the series or books in general. All great works of literature have human love at the core of the story— this isn’t some silly feature of the YA genre (though of course there are cringey aspects of the way these things play out in the genre). The pursuit of love is so often a crucial part of driving the plot and point— love interests aren’t just there to satisfy some cutesy desires, they stand for things. In Crime and Punishment, Sonia is a stand-in for a Christ-like, redemptive love that Raskolnilov recoils from in his frantic, crime-induced state of confusion, but ultimately he chooses Sonia and salvation. No one tries to claim that Crime and Punishment would have been better without the romantic aspect. In Picture of Dorian Gray, Sybil is a symbol of that initial innocence that Dorian corrupts— the good part of himself that he decides to kill (Sybil commits suicide) when he embarks on this path of hedonism that ultimately destroys him. These are just two small examples.
I’m not trying to compare the Hunger Games to great works of literature; the prose is infinitely inferior. But as stories, I think the way love features is well done. Peeta serves a similar function as Sonia in C&P— he’s that symbol of unadulterated goodness that ultimately gets corrupted by war (in Crime and Punishment Sonia is corrupted by the economic inequalities of the period— she becomes a prostitute— while Peeta is corrupted by the Capitol’s hijacking.) But that goodness that kindles the love between him and Katniss ultimately saves them both— redemptive love. A lot of people get it, and sure there’s a fair share of people who take the cutesy aspects too far to the exclusion of deeper aspects of the books. But I don’t understand the refrains of “this is war! Who cares about Peeta.” For all the social and societal things happening in the world, the world is experienced on the level of individuals! Human affection, family. This is something the HG books understand.
Where this flies out the window for me is the love triangle, which I found dumb and unnecessary and obviously tacked on as an afterthought on this second read. I read somewhere that Suzanne Collins originally wrote Gale as Katniss’s cousin, and it was her editor who encouraged her to make it a love triangle. I feel like the idea of choosing between Gale’s “fire” and Peeta’s “hope” could have been done just as well if Gale was a member of Katniss’s family— it actually would have been better. The teenage confusion about Gale vs Peeta fees very contrived. There doesn’t ever seem to be a conflict, at no point in the books does she ever have romantic feelings for Gale. While Peeta as a love interest is well developed and serves an important function, I think the forced nature of the love triangle does a disservice to the books and the movies.
Imagine if Peeta was the sole love interest over the novels and the films— all the screen time wasted on trying to force the chemistry between Liam and Jennifer could have been spent deepening the real conflicts, ambiguities, and subtleties of Peeta and Katniss’s relationship. I think this would have helped the commercial viability of the films as well, since the love triangle is far and wide considered to be the most blekh aspect of the film according to critics. One critical review I read recently summed it up best: the male love interests are maybe purposely made bland so that they don’t distract from the female heroine, but Katniss as a character and Jennifer as an actress could have successfully carried the films even with a stronger and more compelling male love interest (Peeta as he was written and as he was supposed to be portrayed).
This leads me to maybe my biggest quip with the films: Peeta is not just less witty and sassy (as many people have pointed out already,) he is fundamentally weaker than Katniss. In the books, this is not the case. In the books, Katniss is often breaking down, doing reckless things, having emotional outbursts and relying on Peeta to be a levelheaded voice of reason. In the films, Peeta is meek and focused on his relationship with Katniss while Katniss is focused on the war. In the books, it is repeated multiple times that while Katniss is a great shot and has survival skills, Peeta is stronger and more skilled in one-on-one combat. We never see this in the films, not really.
In the first film, there is a crucial omission that I think really changed the dynamic that existed in the books. In the books, Peeta fights Cato to protect Katniss. In the film, he just tells her to “get outta here, go!” It’s never clarified that Peeta fights Cato one on one and that’s how he gets his leg injury. As a result, we see Katniss taking care of him in the cave, saving his life, without the explicit understanding that he was saving her life first. As a result, the dynamic is unequal. Peeta looks “weaker” than her in a way he never was in the books. There are countless other examples of ways the books and film differ on this front— but I think it’s a key reason why film viewers and critics (and people who maybe read the books but forgot after watching the films) see Peeta as an unconvincing and uncompelling love interest. It’s not the fault of Josh Hutcherson— I think he does the best with what he’s given. It’s entirely the fault of the director (who, despite Collins’ involvement in the script, ultimately controls the film.)
But anyway. I digress.
If you’re on mobile, you may have to click on the images for better quality!
Plain text version with image descriptions is under the cut.
*Cue merry go round of life*
After a long month and two weeks I’ve finished my howl coat!! Though not for me, it was fun to make, and I hope the recipient likes it.
Credit for the pattern goes to “Copper Penny Crafts” you can buy it here!
If you’re interested in more of my crafts, I sell them on Etsy! Here’s my commission sheet thing if you’re interested in that. If you want to actually crochet yourself though, I made a learning crochet masterlist just for that!
May you have a beautiful day🌼
Drawings From the Edges of Pentiment Pages: Dogs and Cats
Elven Fashion Week
Nandor elves- wear rich and vibrant earth tones, complimented with a silvers and turquoise. Nandor clothing is sturdy and easy to move in, but ornamentation is not sacrificed for functionality. Their hair is almost always a shade of brown and is worn either very long and braided or styled short and manageable.
Avari elves- don’t see the light all that much and both their collective complexion and clothing traditions reflect that. Like the Nandor they prefer long braided hair or short and sleek styles. They prefer the darkest clothing of all the branches of elves, which they accent with deep blues, rich purples and sometimes irredescent hues. They never wear anything shiny or flashy, but they are fond of embroidery as long as it’s subtle.
Teleri elves (Sindar & Falmari)- are almost the same people aesthetic wise. Clothing, adornment and hair styling are all practically the same save color schemes. Sindar adore darker blues and greens, while the Falmari are into pastel, or lighter colors, namely sea foam green and teal. Falmari elves absorb themselves in pearls, shells and corals, while their cousins the Sindar prefer silver and precious gems. All Teleri elves have varying shades of blue eyes. Silver hair is common in the Falmari while Black hair is more common in the Sindar.
Vanyar- long golden hair, amber eyes and sun kissed skin are the main features of this branch of elves. Each vanyar has a fondness/devotion to a specific Vala which they model their personal clothing after. Embroidered golden feathers or jeweled vines for Manwe or Yvanna, a radiating headdress for Varda or flowing robes that dance and shimmer like fire for Aule.
Noldor- unless they are busy crafting, their hair is worn free, very long and unstyled. Almost all of the Noldor have green eyes and black hair, with red hair being very rare (they are the only group that has redheads). Noldor will wear all the colors on the spectrum in a variety of styles. They have the most ornate clothing of all the elves, and are famous for their intricate embroidery and stunning jewelry which is always worn with tremendous pride.
Ink Stains, 1/5
Hobbits are born with a soulmark, Dwarves sing, and Elves make a choice.
Eventually Fem!Bilbo/Kili/Tauriel
Keep reading
having one of those executive function days where everything is too many steps
by which i mean, like, here's how my brain parses the steps in making coffee
good day:
make coffee
regular day:
put water in coffee maker
put coffee in coffee maker
turn on coffee maker
bad day:
take pot from coffee maker
turn on sink
fill up coffee pot
turn off sink
pour water into coffee maker
put coffee pot in coffee maker
open cupboard
get coffee filter from cupboard
get coffee beans from cupboard
put filter in coffee pot
measure coffee
pour coffee into filter
close coffee maker
turn coffee maker on
anyway this is a "14 steps to make coffee" kind of day
This is actually a really good way of explaining this
Ship Sizes
Supercarrier: fandom flagship. Everybody and their dog ships it. The fandom is glutted with artwork and fic. You cannot escape this ship.
Dreadnought: massively popular. Nearly everybody ships it. You can, with dedication, in theory, reach the end of the AO3 archive for the ship’s tag, but it’ll take a long time.
Cruiser: pretty popular ship. Not everyone ships it, but everyone knows about it. Has a good amount of fic/art, and probably multiple ask blogs.
Frigate: just plain popular. Feels like it could use more fanworks. New people to the fandom might not know about it, but they’ll stumble across it sooner rather than later.
Gunboat: bit of a rarepair. It might have an ask blog or two. A couple big name fans ship it. Probably only takes a few weeks to get through the entire AO3 backlog, and one new fic gets added during that time.
Tugboat: rarepair. Almost never seen except as a side pairing to a more popular ship. You can usually get through everything on AO3 in a matter of days. You’ve forgotten what it is to be picky about what you read.
Rowboat: less than a dozen people ship it. You all know each other. You exist in an endless cycle of the same five people desperately producing art and fic and one person who constantly contributes headcanons.
Canoe: you are one of maybe three people who ship it, and there’s a not-insignificant chance you’ve never encountered those other two hypothetical shippers. You spend your days paddling furiously in hopes of keeping the ship afloat, dreaming of the day you upgrade to a rowboat so you can finally rest.
Submarine: Quite a few people ship it, but nobody wants to admit to shipping it. Will randomly appear and throw the other ships into confusion.
Pontoon: that random crossover ship with that one black dress character/trope/fandom everyone will ship with everything else. Has the potential to turn into a massive party until someone gets sick and everyone goes home.
Pedalo: That iconic bizarre crackship whose proponents claim they’re only into it ironically, but secretly they’re all dead serious.
Paging @amythe3lder for the pool noodle definition.
Barge: Not quite seaworthy, but buoyant in both the literal and figurative senses. Someone is always merrily drunktweeting about it at 11pm on Saturday night and then wistfully sobertweeting about it 4 hours later from their kitchen floor. The kind of ship that generates more playlists than fic. Artfully covered in trash and dirty laundry.
Raft: There’s two-to-four people who Ship It Hard and a few others who grab onto the side for safety when there’s drama on their usual flagship.
Barrel: There’s orphaned fic of it. There’s unsigned art of it. There’s headcanon asks on anon. Someone must ship it, but no one knows why or who they are. Your friend got a glimpse once before they ducked back down.
Pool Noodle: It’s just you, kicking your feet. You named the ship and wrote it on your noodle with a big sharpie. You tell people about it and are met with confused blinking. Most of the fics in the tag were either written by you or for you. You are caught between wanting to shout about how lovely life is on this floating scrap of whimsy and fearing that your noodle can’t bear much weight. Or worse, that someone will come over and dunk you, take your noodle and fwhap you on the head with it.
This is a brilliant guide 😆
The Ever Given: Destiel. It stuck itself sideways through the internet and will not budge.
You knew it was coming but you still had to read it all.
Knew it was coming, snarfed my soda anyway.
@vexbatch are we clinging to our pool noodle together???
Snow flakes falls softly into crystal clear water. Beautiful. Source
Ah, to be a snowflake softly falling into crystal clear water!
This is mesmerizing
I’m in Narnia 😍😍😍