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rainformation

formative years? aren’t they all?

absolutejamer

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

periodcostumefantasylover

The Princess Bride 4k

victusinveritas

upsettingandunfortunateclasshate

When Tess Morgan's son came home with a tattoo, she was griefstricken. She knew her reaction was OTT (he's 21) but it signalled a change in their relationship

This is gold this, absolute gold, the most over the top melodramatic hysterical ridiculous thing I’ve ever read

brawlcloud

This is actually so interesting to read- it’s from 2012 but its full of the same anxieties, even some of the same phrasing that many of the guardian’s later pieces on transness use. really hammers home how much of the terfism that emerged in the late 10s was middle class mothers angry at a loss of control over their adult children- whether that be their bodies or their friends or their opinions- and making that everyone’s problem because they have the power to do so

monkey-cat-vivi

He says, “I’m still the same person.”

I look at him, sitting there, my 21-year-old son. I feel I’m being interviewed for a job I don’t even want. I say, “But you’re not. You’re different. I will never look at you in the same way again. It’s a visceral feeling. Maybe because I’m your mother. All those years of looking after your body – taking you to the dentist and making you drink milk and worrying about green leafy vegetables and sunscreen and cancer from mobile phones. And then you let some stranger inject ink under your skin. To me, it seems like self-mutilation. If you’d lost your arm in a car accident, I would have understood. I would have done everything to make you feel better. But this – this is desecration. And I hate it.”

quasi-normalcy

Also just the classism of her associating tattoos with “vest tops, dogs on chains, broken beer glasses”; like, just say you hate poor people

Germany, prime loser state

It applied for a non-permanent seat in the UN security council. There were big hopes because "Germany is an advocate for international law" – while sending weapons to nations committing genocide and saying that what the US have been doing this year is either "complicated" or "doing the dirty work for us"

Do I need to say Germany was not voted into the council?

And being the big people they are, politicians are now whining that Germany should simply stop paying its fees for the UN. Could someone just give them a bloody lollipop?

In times like this and to fight off the growing wave of fascism and authoritarianism, we'd need a competent leadership improving the lives of people. Instead we got brats who will cry when the other children won't play with them

imkeepinit

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’

directactionforhope

Feels like a good time to remind certain people that this is coming from Judith Butler, who is not just a leading feminist philosopher, but also THE COFOUNDER OF QUEER THEORY

The literal cofounder of queer theory as an academic field says that abandoning trans people is fascist logic.

The voices in our community trying to exclude us may be loud, but they are not right, and they do not speak for the community as a whole or our history or anything at all.

Trans people belong here. We always have, and we always will.

Important reminder: in The Two Towers, Legolas and Gimli had their counting game at Helm's Deep in the books as well. However, in the book, when Legolas learnt that Gimli had outdone him, his reaction was, "you know what, I'm too relieved you survived this battle to be mad"

#lord of the Rings #lotr

kwistowee

#rentfree THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS @lotrweek 2025 | Day 1: brown / Hobbit day

harpsi-corpse

The cards see all.

carryonlikewedidbefore

A sword is the perfect gender neutral gift.

tolkien-queer

- aragorn

peatbogpirate

this one's from last year but I just started my rotk reread and this scene makes me giggle every time

quakerjoe

gentlethey-of-the-shire

YOU REBLOGGED A LOTR POST

EVERY DAY I GET CLOSER AND CLOSER

YOU WILL TURN EVENTUALLY

dindjarism

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS 2002 | dir. Peter Jackson

eldest-tree

FARAMIR

southfarthing

20 YEARS OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (18 DEC 2002)

I wonder if we’ll ever be put into songs or tales?

triflesandtea

Hit me in the Feels on a random Sunday. Go ahead. It’s okay. You can do it.

(*silently punching you*)

makesomenoise

🌈

noah-wyles

all i want for 2026 is that gigantic rancid AI bubble to finally burst in such a catastrophic way that the consequences will be so good and i'll never have to see another AI generated image ever again