Lianne in the Big World

How I handle myself in this crazy world. And other stuff.

[lakevida]

if we all spent just six hours a day working on some kind of complex tapestry in contemplative silence nobody would have the problems they currently have

[sandmandaddy69]

[justalitlecreacher]

The trope where a character overhears something out of context and assumes the worst is usually annoying and bad but I really think it works well in Shrek

We, the audience, know that Fiona is talking about herself but, regardless, she’s calling herself these terrible things because she is an ogre. If Fiona is these things because she is is an ogre what does that make Shrek?

If Fiona says no one could love her because she is an ogre, she is saying that Shrek is also unloveable whether she wants to or not.

Imo the scene is a really good portrayal of how when you talk poorly of yourself or others for having a trait, you’re also talking about every other person who shares that trait; even if you love them or think what you’re saying doesn’t apply to them.

[informationsorter]

Not going to lie, I saw the word “Shrek” and never expected this to be a deep post.

[lesbianfanfictionenthusiast]

"you read a lot, right?"

"yes!"

"what are some books you've recently read?"

"uhh i don't remember"

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[tiktoksijustthinkareneat]

[mikkeneko]

This is not nsfw but it somehow feels like it ought to be

[guerrillatech]

[jv]

This is akin all those hot takes about the 2k bug being an hoax:

"Remember when they told us every computer was going to crash on 1/1/01 and there would be chaos and then nothing happened?"

Yeah, I remember. And I'm sure every programmer and sysadmin that contributed the billion person/hour global effort to prevent it also remembers.

[alarajrogers]

No one talks about acid rain anymore, either. And that's a very good thing.

[oligopspispopd-deactivated20221]

see also START and START II, which significantly reduced nuclear stockpiles

[cop-disliker69]

International cooperation is actually so effective that most people don’t even notice it happening, and then erroneously believe it can’t solve anything.

[guerrillatech]

[radicalposture]

i’ll be honest the crushing weight of the silmarillion bearing down on lotr really elevates it to exquisite new heights

[radicalposture]

what i mean is if you read lotr in isolation you do understand the pressure of the vast ages of history and events but it’s vague and undefined. lotr is the main narrative but lotr is a hobbits eye view of arda and the events of the silmarillion are there and their presence is felt but they’re just names and references. you hear the words silmaril, beren , luthien, feanor, earendil, but they don’t mean anything to you. they’re the appendix to lotrs story, the backstory for the ruins that lotr is built on. but then you read the silmarillion and come at it backwards and see the story of the ring as an appendix to the silmarillion and it could easily seem so trite and small in comparison but instead it makes lotr burn all the brighter. the fellowship comes to lothlorien and suddenly you see it from the other side. there’s galadriel and celeborn and with them valinor and feanor and the two trees and the silmarils and then suddenly into the middle of all that walks samwise gamgee and tolkien stands sam beside galadriel and finrod and glorfindel and tuor and he tells you that sam is just as important. probably more important. that all these ancient heroes would look at sam and know that. and sometimes people talk as if the silmarillion was tolkien’s ‘real’ story and the hobbit/lotr was just an afterthought or a more marketable alternative but when you hold them side by side you understand what he really meant which is that after all those hundreds of pages and thousands of years of history. sam is what’s important.

[valasania-the-pale]

The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit stories take place in a post-post-post (and probably a few more posts in there) apocalyptic world. The ruins peak up from the sod and we often think that those ruins are just dead stone, old trees, and maybe a song or two, but in Tolkien’s world those ruins include people who haven’t learned how to die yet, and there’s power in having that history that can speak for itself, in the same way that there are forests that can fight back and little normal people who get to (for once) decide the fate of all things rather than just another bozo with a superweapon.

For a nature-loving historian/linguist who survived two world wars, it’s wishfulfillment, of a sort, and it really reads through his stories. Neither texts invalidate the other, they add to one another. There is joy in the saga of Middle Earth culminating in triumph rather than bittersweet tragedy, and the Silmarillion coming before only lends weight to that - The Long Defeat ended in ultimate victory for goodness, rather than a pyrrhic victory by a too-late vanguard or unending misery under the feet of darkness’ last gasp.

[ihatecispeople]

[propalahramota]

Living through genocide in this day and age is so deeply weird. I cried on the train today while listening to Halsey because I casually decided to go on Twitter and first thing I saw there was the photos of the bodies they found in Izyum. I go on Tumblr and I reblog every post about it in between photos of gorgeous actresses. I go on Twitter and I laugh at memes while thinking about the woman from my hometown the Russians killed and then dumped her body in the central street and no one dared to get her for hours, I`m thinking about the blue and yellow bracelet, I`m thinking about Bucha, I`m trying to imagine just how many it is - 80k dead in Mariupol, I`m thinking about how am I gonna keep living with a hole in my heart, and then I go back to liking pretty pictures online. 

[weavemama]

daily reminder that there is absolutely nothing normal about being expected to waste a majority of your life at a corporation to survive instead of indulging in better life experiences ✨

[ralfmaximus]

In the 1960s it was a common speculation that by 1980 the typical work week would consist of 4 days. And by the year 2000 we’d be working no more than 3 days a week.

Because of computerization, automation, and better efficiencies in workflow.

Guess what happened instead?

[yeahiwasintheshit]

[etct-deactivated20240208]

imagine youre cinderella and youre running away from the ball and your. actually i cant tell which shoe would be funnier to lose 

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post

[fuwah-deactivated20221013]

[thegreenthingslivebeforetheydie]

my favorite is when Kermit’s facial expression is simultaneously an obvious hand in a puppet but also an instantly recognizable and relatable emotion

[thegreenthingslivebeforetheydie]

[misshoneywheeler]

[wickedwonderlandd]

[dankmemeuniversity]

[caralarm-bicycles]

You can really sense the tumblr userbase aging

[o-kurwa]

[theunvanquishedzims]

#i mean. bro #i hate to break this to you but #you are in fact good at the small amount of piano ur playing #it is not fake

Dude taught himself to compose and calls it fake

“Just string it together in any order, the more random it is the more complex it’ll sound" improvising music on the fly was one of Mozart’s party tricks

Not saying this guy is Mozart but he’s smart and clever and talented and way, way underappreciating himself

[blackwoolncrown]

Bimbo qualities

[windup-angel]

babe wake up new flavor of imposter syndrome dropped

[drtanner]

Yeah 100% the joke's on him for thinking he's faking, lmao.