Merry

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." (J.R.R. Tolkien)

[majflodder]

Touching grass isn't enough I need to move to the shire and live in a hobbit hole

[heliophilos]

mad that women say they're in their granny era for liking nature walks and crocheting and baking bread like man those are just normal life skills and hobbies that anyone should be able to do at any age

[sassypossum-deactivated20241230]

[novelmonger]

I'm beginning to think that eucatastrophe may be one of the most important elements of a true Christmas story.

When Scrooge wakes up and discovers that it's still Christmas morning and he can spread the joy of Christmas and make everything right before it's too late.

When the Grinch returns to Whoville and gives all their presents and decorations and the feast back to them.

When Kevin McCallister's family comes back home just in time for Christmas - not only his mom who's been trying so hard to make it back, but also the rest of them who had to wait for the next flight - and the old man gets his family back too.

And especially, especially, when George Bailey gets to live again, and discovers that everyone in town has been pitching in what they can to help him pay off his debts - and not just for the $8,000! Sam Wainwright gives him $25,000 and he's the richest man in town!

Eucatastrophe. It's so perfect for Christmas because Christmas itself is the beginning of the greatest eucatastrophe of them all.

[thepioden]

Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water

it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.

[thepioden]

tags by @eridan-ampora

[thepioden]

Update: this is the best post I've ever made because everyone is sharing their Warm Beverage recipes in the notes. Go check the notes for more Warm Beverages That Will Fix You.

[spinchs-field]

pin for all my fellow paranoia havers that are so brave and strong every night walking to the kitchen

[lesser-flamingo]

I love the old timey phrase "you forget yourself". bro that was so impolite like do you even know who you are rn

[coloredcompulsion]

[keskaowl]

tags from coloredcompulsion:

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

“Could you be the chosen one?”

“I am very much the guy who’s here.”

[lifewithchronicpain]

[fatehbaz]

low opacity elrond

[southfarthing]

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001)

happy october 24th!

[the-right-writing]

Things almost every author needs to research

How bodies decompose

Wilderness survival skills

Mob mentality

Other cultures

What it takes for a human to die in a given situation

Common tropes in your genre

Average weather for your setting

[clevergirlhelps]

yoooo

How bodies decompose

Wilderness survival skills

Mob mentality

Other cultures

What it takes for a human to die in a given situation

Common tropes for your genre

Average weather for your setting

[curiositypolling]

have you ever actually screamed in fright? (not a gasp or a shouted swear but an actual scream)

no, but also I havent seen anything scream-worthy

I have seen things people might deem scream worthy but havent screamed

yes I have screamed in fright

nuance

Voting ended onOct 2, 2024

[ashstfu]

fast food, fast fashion, songs being sped up, tv show seasons being only 8 episodes long, replacing youtube vlogs with fifteen second “day in the life” tiktoks, people in their 20s complaining about being too old...everything is so rushed, we have lost the art of lingering.

[valtsv]

was playing "fetch" with the ocean today by tossing stones into it and watching them wash back up with the tide a few meters away, and it got me thinking about grief and the things we carry with us even after we lose them

[valtsv]

[jace-targaryen]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (2002) dir. peter jackson

[sock-bread]

Reading Narnia all the way through for the first time and i came across this line in Dawn Treader. I don’t understand it but I can’t stop thinking about it. I feel like crying for some reason.

[youngestthunderbird]

This is the reason that I love Lewis and Tolkien better than a lot if modern Christian writers, boiled down to a sentence. Their philosophy, roughly put, was that any object or idea or person was more than its chemical parts, its past, or its present. They saw sciences habit of defining something only by its composition to be detrimental or even soulless, so they emphasized the older idea of meaning and spirit and symbol in everything.

A star is made of a great ball of gas, but it is light. It’s direction for the lost, a wonder in the heavens, it’s a constant in mist lifetimes. A star was the message that Jesus was born. A star is hope, sometimes even when all hope us lost. A great deal of this meaning us list when we only think of it as a ball of gas.

There’s a reason Eustace is the one to say this; he was the one who subscribed to this scientific reduction philosophy until recently, and is still unlearning it. But even more so than that, is the meaning it has for him as a symbol. Eustace is a flawed boy (and until recently a very unpleasant one at that), but he’s more than just that. He is The Repentant, the example of Grace, and he’s working to better himself. He’s not just his past, he is a symbol of hope in his own right, for even the most wretched can change.

[anxiouslittlecarrot]

What is particularly wonderful about CS Lewis and Tolkien is that they were both academics, scholars. Hardcore nerds (although in different ways, they were like two ends of a nerd spectrum). They both believed in science completely. But not in scientism.

They saw science as a way to study the minutiae of the Creation, understand it practically, to know it as God created us to, and know how to take care of it.

And with all of their academic knowledge, all of their scientific understanding, they knew that what science can quantify and analyse is only a part of what the world is – and not the most important one, at that.

[ruerock]

reassuring dialogue with my friend from today