[cuunos]

being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.

[sapphire-or-smth]

She's a 10 but she murdered a serial killer and then framed it on a rapist so obviously she's an 11

[buddieloustat]

9x12 | 9x18

[sokodraws]

fine, you want the butcher? come on

[these-are-not-my-titties]

our own patron saint of one way trips

[amorphousbl0b]

The divisiveness of Iron Lung is kinda confusing because evidently a bunch of Gen Z YouTube kids are way more tolerant of a slow pace than many grown adults with film degrees

[mlembug]

Now if Iron Lung the movie gets a Blu-ray release, I suggest adding in the director's commentary starting with "Hello everybody, my name is Markiplier..." and also Markiplier in the corner.

[weird-goodbyes]

feel free to disagree with me, but it was actually really important to me that Chris was fully aware and involved with what was happening.

[overwroughtafterthought]

Average 911 episode is like the team arrives on the scene for a 70 car pile up caused by a suicide bomber with amnesia or something and Athena has to commit police brutality to investigate his backstory, meanwhile Chimney is repelling down the side of a cliff to extract a woman who was cut in half or whatever, and Buck and Eddie are fighting because Eddie did something that Buck perceives as abandonment and Eddie is mad that Buck is mad, but they work together anyway to save a baby that's on fire, and then Eddie gets crushed by a motorcycle and Buck saves him and is like I'm so sorry I never meant it, it's just that, you matter, so much, to me... and Eddie is like It's okay Buck, let me put my hands on your shoulders in a very straight way. And Maddie is mogging in the background and Hen has her hands in man's entire chest cavity. And then the highway blows up

[generation-snooze]

[bucksbabybelly]

Schrödinger’s buddie: not canon but also canon enough to get hate crimed in small towns

[academic-vampire]

To the lady at the bookstore who bought a stack of banned books and told me, “I want my child to be able to read these in the future,” I see you.

[voyaging-too]

The Lord of the Rings takes place in a world that’s analogous to Medieval England, and yet there’s New World crops like potatoes and tobacco. That’s not actually a plot hole: Tolkien himself explains, in the prologue to Fellowship, that pipeweed has been brought from overseas by Numenorians, it follows that hobbits came by potatoes the same way.

But the Hobbit and the early chapters of Fellowship contain much more jarring and numerous anachronisms than post-Columbian-exchange plants. There are metaphors referring to gunpowder, guns, a train engine and express trains! There are commodities that are from the Old World, but were not widespread in Medieval Europe, such as coffee, tea and fireworks. Even silk might be a bit of a stretch. And then there are tons of things that could or technically did exist  in a medieval world, but we definitely associate them with later eras: top hats, public museums, clocks small enough to put on a mantelpiece, football, golf, mothballs, umbrellas, metal pens, water bottles instead of waterskins, Christmas crackers, and then there’s the entire question of the hobbits’ written culture. Paper appears widely available and cheap, not everyone is literate but there seems to be a large literate middle-class that owns multiple books, has long legal battles with paperwork involved, sends tons of letters, sends written party invitations, uses anachronistic pre-cut envelopes. Letters aren't carried by random servants, there's an official postal service and a post office: this all implies a level of literacy and written culture more typical of an Early Modern-ish setting. Or Regency? Or Victorian? But definitely super not Medieval.

Conclusion one: when Tolkien started writing The Hobbit he very much did not know where he would end up, which is thematically appropriate.

Conclusion two: Tolkien semi-intentionally wrote the Shire as low-tech but still very recognisably similar to modern England, so that the hobbits leaving its safety to enter an Actual Fantasy World would feel more relatable. (LOTR is a portal fantasy.)

Conclusion three: these are not the aspects of worldbuilding that actually matter, it is actually good that Tolkien is obsessed with mythology and linguistics and only sketches the rest of the worldbuilding out as far as it's necessary for the plot, no need to sweat the small stuff. You should only write about agriculture and taxation if you care about them as much as Tolkien cared about unhinged comparative linguistics.

Conclusion four: in a Watsonian sense, we can take on the conceit that Tolkien didn't write the books, only translated them from a real source, the Red Book of Westmarch. We may then proceed to blame any perceived inconsistencies on his translation.

[girl-effigy]

do you think it feels good for wolves to go awoo i think it feels good

[murasaki-cha]

WECOME HOME PAUL BLOFIS MY GLORIOUS KING!!!! 🎊👏

[artemisia-tyche]

Just saw an video of fans asking Walker Scobell about Nico’s actor and omg he said that not only the kid is a Percy Jackson super fan, but while they were talking about the books he CORRECTED Walker on facts 😭 and whispered his lines during their chemistry read

If these aren’t the most Nico di Angelo things ever 😭 we are about to be blessed guys

[livnothewson]

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS 2.08 | THE FLEECE WORKS ITS MAGIC TOO WELL