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Welcome! Multifandom blog. - - - "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!"-Aragorn

[lotrlorien]

LOTR20 / day 2 / 12th december / beauty

“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

The pastoralist fantasy of "modern life is too stressful so I should move to a remote area and do hard labor" is so funny

[dama-the-drama]

I have a theory about that.

I think that what people want, when they talk about a pastoralist fantasy is actually an anti-capitalistic fantasy: i noticed, even from my experience, that most people don't mind phisical labour if it gives them results: actual, tangible, results.

Once my boss asked me to copy every article from a website and paste them in the new one. It took me roughly four hours for three days to do and my soul was slowly leaving my body. It was easy work, i mean who wouldnt want to earn money to just click here and click there, rinse and repeat? But it was boring, ripetitive and basically useless.

But when I take some time and clean my house, i sweat, i am tired but... satisfied. I see in front of me the result of my hard labour and I am happy, or at least i don't think i wasted my time.

So the fantasy of working hard but at least getting something out of it is appealing: why do people work in kitchens? Or bakeries and wake up at dawn to make bread? Or any hard job like that? I knew a guy that had the possibility of having every job he wanted, but he opened a bar and couldnt be happier.

This is my idea, i'm not a student in sociology or anything but I hope i made a point.

[daitoshi]

I have two degrees, and my previous job was the marketing department head for an international biotech company. I was well-paid, but dreaded work every morning. The endless cycle of low-grade manipulation and feeling like “making money for someone else to pocket, HELPING no one else” felt miserable.

I left and now work at a garden center. I haul around plants and educate people about them, so they can make informed choices. I help people, and seeing the plants grow under my care is wonderful. My soul is flourishing, my heart is at peace. My coworkers are all honest (as far as I can tell), and there’s no push for upselling or pushing people to buy stuff if it’s not very suited for their landscape.

Even if my wallet is a lot lighter these days, so too are my worries!

[darthflake]

I worked IT in a city and fuck. People try to controll your every second. Faster! More efficient! You took a second too long to type that. You drove 56 kmh but could have gone 58 without getting caught. I messaged you a minute ago but you didn't reply so I walked to your cubicle to ask you. Also let's have an efficiency meeting. You are too slow. That's your feedback. How long will that task take? Can we somehow shorten that?

And all for what? To manipulate the user to buy product. Not to improve the website mind you. Whenever I suggested: hey, our website is not useable for the visually impaired/people with motor problems. I got back an: we don't care they're too small of a market value

So can you really blame me for fantasizing about a life where I can just plant flowers and vegetables and walk everywhere without the need of manipulating people and mikromanage my every second

[roach-works]

my current job is managing a plasma cutting machine, so i have to spend a lot of time dragging big chunks of iron on and off conveyor belts and i end up sore and filthy at the end of every shift, and usually a bit scratched up.

but it’s third shift and there’s no supervision whatsoever, so while the machine is running, i can type on my phone. i’ve written most of a novel so far with my thumbs, covered in grease and iron dust. and i also produced a lot of construction materials for bridges, dams, warehouses, and skyscrapers.

i really like my job.

[feuervogel]

This is Marx's theory of alienation.

When people are removed from the tangible results of their labor, they become distressed and dissatisfied - and this is the result of capitalist profit-focused processes.

[nemurenaivoron]

This is definitely the appeal the cozy sims have for me, be it a farming sim like Mistria or SDV or a building sim like My Time At Sandrock which I've been playing recently

Not only there's no pressure to be super efficient and productive and make the most money (although you can do that still), you get the direct feedback on how your hard labor helps the people around you

I left the Customer Support job for a more boring administrative stuff to escape the nightmarish 24/7 work schedule, but sometimes I miss hearing from the customer directly how delighted they are that my assistance solved their problem.

I want to see my hard work doing something good, something other than getting more money for the company's CEO. That's it, that's the whole fantasy.

[piratehunted]

[jovaline]

🪐✨ I need a super graphic ultra modern girl like me!

I love this song~

[lady-arryn]

costume appreciation: Chandramukhi’s wardrobe from Devdas [1/8] (costumes by Abu Jani, Sandeep Khosla, Neeta Lulla and Reza Shariffi)

[itsays]

no i dont think women starving themselves and reconstructing their entire faces with makeup and plastic surgery is feminism and female empowerment

[itsays]

the craziest part about the backlash this post gets is that i used the word starving. i can understand my anti ps sentiment being controversial (pussies) but the fact that you'd defend a woman's right to starve herself in the name of empowerment because that's what she wants is soooooooooooo wild to me i cannot comprehend it at all lol self destructive behavior is not empowerment. prommy

[stevesaragorn-deactivated202401]

ARAGORN in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) dir. Peter Jackson

[nigelgraz]

Fabric study :)🤍

[bittersweetresilience]

one of my favorite things to do in limited perspective is write sentences about the things someone doesn't do. he doesn't open his eyes. he doesn't reach out. i LOVE sentences like that. if it's describing the narrator, it's a reflection of their desires, something they're holding themselves back from. there's a tension between urge and action. it makes you ask why they wanted or felt compelled to do that, and also why they ultimately didn't. and if it's describing someone else, it tells you about the narrator's expectations. how they perceive that other person or their relationship. what they thought the other person was going to do, or thought the other person should have done, but failed to. negative action sentences are everything.

[hollowboobtheory]

evanescence bring me to life and britney spears toxic are sisters to me

[hollowboobtheory]

do you see

[coyotetale]

Their mother

[glorf1ndel]

I burst out laughing, not gonna lie

[harrisonforded]

"Very bright was that sword when it was made whole again; the light of the sun shone redly in it, and the light of the moon shone cold, and its edge was hard and keen. And Aragorn gave it a new name and called it Andúril, Flame of the West."

[tlotrgifs]

My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours.

[official-lucifers-child]

mr sandman was playing in this gas station and the cashier and i both sang “man me a sand” at the same fucking time without hesitation

[hte-spagheti]

[summerchat]

My boyfriend and I regularly recite this one to each other

[fairycosmos]

job interviews feel so weirdly degrading it's like you're asking to be exploited and they still reject you

[amygdalae]

being in your 20s is like. every day i am playing with forces i can barely understand

[whitepeopletwitter]

[speakingofdoorknobs]

[literalchemy-deactivated2025052]

the “you live with your parents” insult is really flaccid because a metric shitton of cultures don’t see “leave the house forever” as some grandiose moment of liberation that’s so important to the development of a person that it has to happen as fast as possible. until i came to the USA i didn’t know a single person who was pressured by their parents to leave the house because they’re “too old to stay there” or whatever. in puerto rico it is really common to stay with your parents until they and you are both stable enough that you can leave. whaddaya know, there are cultures that don’t place a stigma on being poor or wanting to care for your family or needing your family to care for you for some other reason.