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The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY 1954-1955, writ. J.R.R. Tolkien / 2001-2003, dir. Peter Jackson

hollers-and-holmes

Two differing points of view I have recently encountered:

1. Stories are soul-fluff; stories amuse: stories are purely diversionary and do nothing to inform or shape the consumer’s worldview/ethos/personal character; stories have no power to change the way anyone thinks or feels.

2. Stories are soul-food; stories teach; by stories are affections and proclivities developed for good or for ill; stories are profoundly impactful not only on the imaginative plane but on the consumer’s morality.

Discuss?

sisterdragonwithfeathers

2. SOUL FOOD

I'm sorry, but no matter how much you don't want them too, stories WILL impact how you think about things. That's why they're so wonderful and so freaking scary. Unless you are actively analyzing and resisting the core messages a story is presenting to you (and no story can exist without core principles of some kind) You. Will. Be. Changed.

I think you worded that definition brilliantly. I cannot improve it.

Additionally, I am convinced that any person who believes stories are simply "soul-fluff" either already is or will become a slave to the beliefs and values of the stories they consume. (aka, a slave to the creators of those stories.)

greater-than-the-sword

^ if you think a story has no power to change your values, it’s because your values already align with those of the works you consume (or become aligned to them without your noticing it); if the story’s values differed from your own you would have to actively and consciously resist this change in order to avoid it.

sonia-marmeladova

Also. I’ll add. The meaning of life is bound up in narrative. Our meaning has a definitive beginning in Eden, a climax on the Cross, and an end in the eschaton. Stories are not our invention. Rather we ourselves as individuals are inscribed by them, and can only understand what and who we are through the stories in which we take part.

funnytwittertweets

jesy193920-deactivated20180114

the worst feeling is when you’re totally obsessed with something and none of your friends like/know/or care about such thing so you have to cry on your own

#did you mean #jon bellion

fosterthelyrics

maybe idk / jon bellion

chonce

CHONCE I SAW JON BELLION TONIGHT FKSGKDBCBBSVDKDB I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE IT HES SUCH A GREAT PERFORMER. and he had this really cool speech at the end about the youth of America and racism and im in love

YAAAA MY BOY

lowkeyannoying-blog

I WAS AT THIS CONCERT

morleybob-history-deactivated20

The Bellamy Blake makes my knees go weak meme [333/∞] aka the one with the sexy walking

#bellamy baby #my babies #the 100 #grounder babies #bellamy tho #ugh #that holster on his thigh

tim-lucy

#baes #my babies #the 100 #grounder babies #ugh #otp: I need you

jadeamelia

from 0 to 100 real quick

#stanger things #stranger things

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD

THE 100

SEASON THREE IS ON NETFLIX

HOLY SHIT

IM DYING GUYS

JOHN

IM LIKE TEN MINUTES IN

THIS IS A NIGHTMARE

AND ITS SO BEAUTIFUL

GOD

I CANT

UGH

WHERE IS BELLAMY

#ME #SORRY #RANTING #the 100 #my babies #bellamy baby #murphy #murphy baby #i cant

cambridge--inspiration-deactiva

The time Her Majesty the Queen made James Bond wait for her to finish her correspondence and then just walked off without looking if he was following her.

astrophagy

— vincent van gogh

moi: mais ouais je parle bien français, c'est pratiquement ma langue maternelle

quelqu'un français: *tente d'avoir une conversation avec moi en français*

moi: ...merde

#SAME #tho #holy shit #I understood this #I read and comprehended #progress!#I love language

songofsunset

Alien: So you’re saying that human brains sometimes just… malfunction? And see threats that aren’t really there?

Human: Yeah basically?

Alien: And then the human keeps living and doing things anyways???

Human: Yup

Alien: Woahhhhhh. Woahhhhh. Humans are badass.

fireandwonder

Aliens would probably have fundamentally different responses to trauma than humans would,like- their brains. would be so fundamentally different. at a basic chemical and structural level we’d have to relearn everything, in this scenario the alien species is REALLY BAD at continuing to function with even a slightly impaired brain, and deals with it with LOTS OF BABIES, Oh yeah great grandpa died three years back when he got really surprised and WHAT DO YOU MEAN,THAT A HUMAN GOT STABBED THROUGH THE HEAD AND CONTINUED TO LIVE I DON’T BELIEVE YOU THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE, I bet they are all pregnant all the time and when they randomly die the baby eats their way out of the corpse, they are insectoid and look a lot like praying manti and they REALLY FREAK OUT THEIR HUMAN FRIENDS THE FIRST TIME IT HAPPENS, there is a sort of generational memory that happens which is how they managed to develop tech at all being so fragile, so when the creatures get depressed or homesick or manic and die it’s not like their human friends have lost them forever, except for how it sort of is, (via @songofsunset)

songofsunset

PLEASE IMAGINE THE FIRST TIME AN ALIEN HAS ONE OF THEIR HUMAN FRIENDS DIE

‘so hey, that was a great funeral, cool outfits, always glad to learn more about your culture and stuff. So, when is she coming back?’

‘She- she’s not coming back’

‘Yeah, not as Megan, but when is her replacement coming back?’

‘We’re- not hiring anyone new for a couple weeks???’

‘no no no, you’re not getting what I’m saying- I want to ask her about that book she lent me- can I keep it for another week or two, or does her new version want it back?’

The humans stare at the alien and just. slowly start to figure out what the alien is saying. The alien shuffles nervously, their six spindly legs making a skritching noise that echoes in the cold chapel. Finally, the kindest of the humans takes the alien aside and-

‘hey. so. Us humans don’t come back when we die. Not like you do.’

‘what? No, but you clearly talk about reincarnation, and-’

‘Those are just stories, Six. When humans die, we’re gone. We don’t come back.’

The alien laughs ‘No, see, cuz that would mean that- that would mean. That Megan- Megan is-’ The alien cuts off the hissing noise that is their equivalent of a sob. ‘I have to go.’

The alien spends a week in their spaceship, the only place they can send communication to their Mother. When they come back, their carapace is a glistening new shade of red, and they’ve ended up as a different gender. When the lab adviser asks them how they are feeling about Megan-

‘Megan? Oh, yes, my previous version was very fond of Megan.’ The alien cocks their head, like a particularly thoughtful bird. ‘I suppose that I regret her loss. She was a valuable member of the team.’

The lab adviser lets this be- they are aliens after all. But later, when lab hours are done, the adviser notices Six double and triple-checking all the lab equipment, especially- well. The accident that took Megan will never happen again.

The book is never returned.

audiencecat

Now imagine the flip side: Sevan finds out his human friend is due to have a baby in six months. Six months! He asks, and finds that no, there’s no way to delay a human birth. In six months, a new version of his friend will emerge. Will they still like space operas? What about visiting that smoothie place in quadrant 6? Will they even still want to be friends? His friend asks him to be visit the baby, after it’s born. Of course, of course he will. It’s the least he can do. There’s always that vulnerable phase after birth when you haven’t got the hang of the new motor controls, and everyone needs a helping palp for the first few months. The night he hears that the new baby has been born, he wails quietly and recites the qualities of his friend that he will miss the most. Three days later, he gathers his resolve and knocks on the hatch of his friend’s place. Strangely, the access panel hasn’t been lowered - rude. He’ll make sure that’s one of the first things changed. His friends partner opens the door and lets him in and there - there is his friend,looking tired but well, a miniature copy of herself held in her arms. Imagine his joy when he finds out that not only will he get to spend longer with his current friend, but there will be another friend to get to know!

semudara

woa

bippycorgan

good bug stories tbh

8thgradeforever

Excellent bug stories

callmebliss

I am crying over space bugs don’t touch me

#save #stories

heartfulloffandoms-deactivated2

Requested by anon.

lowkeyannoying-blog

Brb, gerbiling.

such-fun

Sassy HYDRA agent

bbgum-princen

*deep menacing accent* “How did you take down Captain America?” *matter of fact European accent replies* “We shot him in the legs because his shield is the size of a dinner plate and he is an idiot”