On a Quest

Ely // 21 // UofG Student // History // Ko-fi.com/languagequest // Trying their best

[iguanamouth]

Pls draw sexy godzilla

[mad-dyspunktional]

What "Nonbinary isn't a third gender." means: The word nonbinary does not describe a single unified third gender between man and woman.

What "Nonbinary isn't a third gender." doesn't mean: Nonbinary people are basically man-lite and woman-lite and can all be treated as such for the sake of convenience in the latest discourse.

[languagequest]

Teenage Dirtbag: Embracing Who We Once Were

Teenage Dirtbag: Embracing Who We Once Were

Content warning: There is brief discussion of eating disorders and general self-hatred as a theme throughout this article. Iconic Wheetus song, I know, look me, cultured. Look, I’m kidding, I’m just some loser 20-year-old who throws their thoughts on the internet while they’re working on working out life. I mean, that’s most 20 year olds, I just don’t think many of them expect other people to…

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[sadclowncentral]

I'm showing my software engineer flatmate tumblr code and glitches and he just keeps getting more and more agitated

[sadclowncentral]

"and people use this site??" bad news chief its my primary social media

[sadclowncentral]

[soapycrow-deactivated20220209]

I'm having to reblog this manually because guess what social media's mobile app decided to remove fast reblogs

[greenhairedwiz]

I use tumblr exclusively on mobile and it sucks that they removed fast reblogs

[staticyuroboros]

IM SORRY THEY WHAT

[aroacedavestrider]

i just updated mobile a solid minute ago and i can still fast reblog?

[bulba413-deactivated20220305]

the fuck is a fast reblog

[languagequest]

New Ideas: Why Are They So Scary?

New Ideas: Why Are They So Scary?

So, folks, I am three days into a new project, a writing project that is, and the first two days went great. Like I wrote an average of 3000 words each day great, I fell in love with the characters and the storyline and I know where everything is going. It’s a magical feeling as a writer, when you just have to tip tap on a keyboard and the characters write their own story. Then you get to the…

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[queerpride]

unfriendly reminder that “febfems” are not welcome here

as in, “”female-exclusive”” bisexual radfems. so just to recap:

bi women who have a preference for women? amazing!

bi women who only date other women? absolutely stunning!

cis bisexual TERFs who shape their whole identities around bioessentialist ideas of what it means to be a woman? nope! please do not interact with this blog under any circumstances.

[queerpride]

this also goes for bisexuals who are bigoted against any marginalized group. (yes, including so-called “battleaxe bisexuals” who are trying to appropriate a radically inclusive label used by bi activists and change its definition to mean “anti m-spec”.)

TL;DR: even if you’re bi, being a bigot automatically disqualifies you from deserving entry to bi-centeric safe spaces.

[beanerbrujx]

Y'all really need to stop acting like nonbinary is a magical third gender that gay men and lesbians cannot be attracted to without switching their sexuality label

There are nonbinary gays, there are nonbinary lesbians, saying those sexualities immediately exclude nonbinary ppl is to spit in the face of the nonbinary members of those communities

[wyrmcourse]

how many times i gotta say nonbinary isn't a secret sexy third gender it's just a term that describes a disconnect from the binary. the specifics of that disconnect are personal

[languagequest]

Feels like we've come full circle now that there's porn blogs imitating the Staff account

[languagequest]

The average person has 3 pumpkin tattoos is just a statistical error. The average person has 0 pumpkin tattoos on their body. Chris Motionless, who has over 10,000 Pumpkin tattoos, is an outlier and should not have been counted. 

[languagequest]

Review: Gloom by Ricky Olson

Review: Gloom by Ricky Olson

After a long bout of not reading, a book crossed my path that really I should have heard of. You see the author, Ricky Olson, is actually a member of a band I really liked as a teenager, Motionless in White. Actually, to be honest with you, I still do really like them and they’ve always been on my radar even when I got super duper weird about music – there’s a whole story to that for another…

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[wolfsnape]

How do you watch the richest man on Earth go to space for 10 minutes of his own amusement while using more CO2 than a billion people in a year instead of idk helping fight climate change or poverty and not immediately radicalize yourself

[languagequest]

Ely Tries Things

Welcome to my blog, where I try things. It's not just about food but there will be recipes. This is all about trying things, whether they be old or new, and I hope you enjoy my journey whatever weird path it takes. Latest from the Blog Get new content delivered directly to your inbox.

So...I’m giving this a go again, if yous would check it out I’d be super grateful. I’ll be adding lots of stuff soon

[languagequest]

Baby girl you weren't in love with those androgynous men in your teens you wanted to look exactly like them

[languagequest]

Hmm, ngl, have always wanted something based off the Devil’s Night video...like story or comic wise, it totally could be one

[languagequest]

Wow I don’t want this to be a hot take or anything, but see if someone uses she and they or he and they or they and neopronouns actually use the other set of pronouns and not just one

[fernstrike]

I need to talk about this for a second.

This is right after Gandalf says, “A balrog. A demon of the ancient world.”

I just love how PJ chose to cut to Legolas’ face because he is exactly who you should cut to at this moment. You need an elf to show what it really means. Other than Gandalf, the rest of the Fellowship can sense something is gravely wrong, but they don’t understand just how grave. Like Gandalf, Legolas knows the terror. He understands the gravity of what lies around that corner. He’s got a piddly little bow and he is mere steps away from a demon of the ancient world. This frame shows a kid coming to the realisation that he is way out of his depth, that this mission will take him to places he only knew to exist in legends of the Elder Days, a time long gone, barely history. 

He’s probably one of the youngest elves in Middle Earth at this point. He probably grew up on stories of the balrogs, slaying the ancient High Kings of the Eldar and tearing Middle Earth apart, thousands and thousands of years ago. They are legends in old crumbling books, read illicitly by a little elfling who was kept up at night by the terrible tales.They are the monsters under the bed and the shadows in the heart of the forest. They are the beasts behind the winged hordes of hell, that older elves, who’ve seen the worst that Arda has to offer, always assured him were no more than distant nightmares, stories relegated to dust and ancient memory. Except now they are real. They are here. They are coming.

[siderealsandman]

The best part is that in the books he just starts screaming when he lays eyes on it

In its right hand was a blade like a stabbing tongue of fire; in its left hand it held a whip of many thongs.

‘Ai! ai! wailed Legolas. “A Balrog! A Balrog has come!’

[whetstonefires]

Legolas can be relied upon to have the correct reaction to everything.

It is not necessarily normal, or socially appropriate, or sane, but it is always 100% correct.

[enigmasalad]

[fernstrike]

i’m sobbing

[thesaltofcarthage]

while I love all this interpretation, Legolas is in fact one of the oldest elves running around Middle-Earth at this point.

Legolas first appears as a minor character in The Fall of Gondolin, which is about the sacking of an ancient (First Age) elf city by a great and terrible army, including multiple balrogs, sent by Morgoth, an evil god who was Sauron’s boss. Glorfindel died the first time tackling a balrog by himself. (Eru Ilúvatar just sends the Elves on back after they die if they don’t want to stay in the Grey Havens.) 

Legolas was one of the scouts (being “long-eyed”) who brought refugees of Gondolin to safety. One of those refugees was a seven-year-old Eärendil. Eärendil, you may recall, is the mariner who had a Silmaril on the prow of his ship and was made into “our most beloved star.” (This starlight is captured by Galadriel in a vial of water and given to Frodo and Sam, which Sam uses to scare off Shelob in Cirith Ungol.) 

And who might the sons of Eärendil be? None other than Elrond Half-Elven, father of Arwen and leader of Rivendell, and Elwing, far-back ancestor of Aragorn.

Legolas saved Elrond’s father from balrogs when Eärendil was a child. Legolas is something like EIGHT THOUSAND YEARS OLD at the time of LOTR. And the thought of a balrog STILL scares the shit out of him. 

[mistystarshine]

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

It's time to kill the idea that we can only grow and heal when we're uncomfortable. You heal every time you have a good conversation with someone. You heal every time you laugh. You heal every time something makes you smile genuinely. You heal every time you have fun creating something - anything. You heal every time you get so absorbed in something fun that you forget your struggles for a while. There is, in fact, lots of healing and growth to be found INSIDE your comfort zone.