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I actually do think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes

tedthetalk

I think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes.

tedthetalk

I think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes.

tedthetalk

You may notice, if you read the post, that “forgiveness” and “redemption” are not mentioned at all. This is on purpose.

freenarnian

During my last re-read of The Lord of the Rings it really sunk in for me how often the protagonists encounter not only danger and betrayal, but unexpected help and friends in unlikely places. Tolkien had a sojourner's heart and said yes, we may be small, but be encouraged. Evil always tries to make itself look bigger than it is. Keep faith with ordinary goodness. Never underestimate the power of simply doing what is right and kind, against the convoluted machinations of evil. The gates of Mordor will not prevail against it.

freenarnian

During my last re-watch of The Return of the King it struck me how ugly and stupid evil is. Kudos to PJ and Co for not aestheticizing the baddies, even resisting the temptation to make Sauron sexy. The Witch King is scary but without substance, defeated by a depressed girl and her pint-sized bestie. The army of Mordor is huge in number but quakes at the sound of Rohan's arrival. They can't even keep a crown of flowers from forming around the fallen statue of a king, only replace his head with a dumb rock and scraps of rusty, twisted metal. The Dark Lord is powerful and dangerous, yes, but he's not all-powerful and he's not infallible. Even his great burning eye is focused in all the wrong places. He uses smoke and mirrors to impress and corrupt Saruman, and to drive Denethor to despair—Denethor, who could have welcomed home the King. (Instead, he wallows in grief, capitulates to fear, and grows bitter in grumbling over Rohan's presumed betrayal. Note how this parallels Gollum instilling suspicion and doubt in Frodo regarding brave and loyal Sam.) The enemy is a liar and a deceiver, and Aragorn knows this when he silences the Mouth of Sauron and says, “I do not believe it. I will not!”

And I want to emphasize this point, this rebuttal of Sauron's divide and conquer tactics: The Fellowship gets weakened. It suffers losses. It becomes scattered across the larger battlefield. But its members remain true to each other, and to their shared mission, even when they find themselves parting ways to accomplish it. At the end of the first film, Aragorn tells Frodo, “I would have gone with you to the end. To the very fires of Mordor.” And where is Aragorn, at the end of the last film?? The gates of Mordor, with the remaining members of the Fellowship (and some new friends, too), exactly where Frodo needs them to be at that moment. No one expects to survive, no one can guarantee victory, and no one but the audience sees the tiny bud on the Tree of Gondor, hope blooming in response to faithfulness even while the sky remains overcast and the city lies in ruins around it.

To repeat my previous tags: #I've said this before and I'll say it again #the devil WANTS you to feel overwhelmed and already defeated and like the small acts of everyday love and faithfulness aren't enough #but in fact each one is chipping another stone out of the foundation of his dark tower #and from your vantage point you may not see the people chipping stones on the other side (but they are there!) #you don't need an extensive understanding of architecture to bring it down #just the willing hands of a hobbit

I love these books and these films.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

i'm begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here's a quick HOW TO:

1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online

2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the "Complaint" links

3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the 'find' function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don't post its url on social media)

4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you're looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)

In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)

you can also download the media in question (look for a "download" button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

if the "Complaint" links are not visible for you:

Option 1: try the DuckDuckGo search engine instead (bonus: dedicated to privacy! doesn't track your data!)

Option 2: go directly to LumenDatabase.org (the website that collects the complaints--and therefore the removed links) and search for the title you want. look for results titled "DMCA (Copyright) Complaint to Google" featuring the media you're looking for. Proceed to Step 3 (above).

awkwardinnocent

personally, i'm a huge fan of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH. they keep their links up to date and they also rank them, basically. they also have all kinds of little pages explaining how to safely pirate shit.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

^^^^what they said. I'm surprised people are still reblogging this post now that google's flushed itself down the toilet. so here is your

2026 UPDATE:

just go to r/FreeMediaHeckYeah and r/Piracy. it's easier, more reliable, and will take care of all your piracy needs!

aperfumedpearl

Edwardian 1900′s Italian Made Pastel Pink, Green and Yellow Columbine Harlequin Clown Costume with working bells

beardedmrbean

celebrinienjoyer

you may be losing the idgaf war but they wouldn't even let me enlist. on account of my poet's temperament.

Not to be crazy but if there r people out there who still listen to lovejoy (that’s ur business) and want to buy my merch then PLEASE. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. HIT ME UP.

I have a bunch of tour shirts from basically every tour they did except the US ones. I have that blue n orange jumper. I also have the wilbur soot jumper with the diff coloured sleeves on it.

I also have loads of quackity merch that I want gone. Mostly hoodies, one of them is signed by him.

Pretty much all of it is barely worn. Some of them I didn’t even get to wear before they were shoved to the back of the wardrobe. Poor financial decisions yes yes whatevs.

Idc if you still are a lovejoy fan, I’m not coming on to whine abt that. If you want merch, come get it.

#quackity #lovejoy #wilbur soot #merchandise

jamesandnina6389

Cemetery of the Nameless, Vienna

The cemetery was originally opened in 1840 for Suicide victims that were turned away from a Catholic burial,

Until about the middle of the last century, the Danube river used to wash up the bodies of people who had drowned or been murdered and dumped in the river upstream to the site of this cemetery. Many of them remained unidentified and nameless - "Unbekannt". Since then, the flow regime of the Danube has changed and bodies are no longer washed ashore here. The last burial in the cemetery of the nameless took place in 1940.

The cemetery seems to be unique: nowhere else is there a burial place reserved exclusively for suicide victims or the victims of a river.

raptorcivilization

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a movie first and foremost about the destruction of minority neighborhoods and public transit by the American car industry. After that, it's a technological milestone. And then it's about cartoons

inamindfarfaraway

@cornfieldsrambles Your analysis is 100% correct and your Jessica Rabbit emotions are profoundly valid!

fluorescentbrains

seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors

insomniac-arrest

I work at a bookstore and hearing one of my male coworkers call smutty romantasy "the downfall of society" because it's "literally just porn" radicalized me

Men have an entire industry. Entire industries dedicated to their sexualities. Let women have fantasy sex. there's not even a camera crew involved.

furiousfurious

Left this in the notes

insomniac-arrest

😂

goodattellinglies

mobgoblin

Queued right up for it

rubbishraven

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post/artist

posttexasstressdisorder

Effective graphics.

beholdingslut

in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

dikdikpronouncedxylophone

bigfoots-biggest-fan

HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY

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Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).

saxifraga-x-urbium

@bigfoots-biggest-fan hey can you make this downloadable???? i want it on my mp3 thinger, it slaps

cwnerd12

omgthatdress

idk if there's anyone on this hellsite that HASN'T listened to this yet, but this is the gay bar anthem I've been dreaming of.

fadingdeerentity

You will not believe how fast I bolted across my room to grab my earbuds so I could listen to it. The music. The stupid robotic voice. It lines up so well? It sounds good? It shouldn’t? It shouldn’t work so well?