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the workday/weekend ratio is so off. like ethically.
being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. "you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas". studies have proven its making people dumber. "i asked ai to generate this meal plan". its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. "ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign". its spreading misinformation. "meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid". its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. "i was talking with my snapchat ai-" theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. "youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification". my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more "well at least-" "but it does-" "but you can-" im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?
#biblically accurate percabeth
Hozier tumblr valentines I made
Tumblr valentines are my favorite part of this âholidayâ
nuggles:
Hozier did a Q/A on facebook and i love him
adding some more because so many of his replies are great :
when i say iâm from ukraine, people assume i live somewhere else now. when i say i live in ukraine, they assume iâm somehow immune to war, and thereâs a logical division between a ukrainian they chat with on discord and a ukrainian on the news. bitches my yaoi is written from the bomb shelter
Just an ordinary day in Ukraine. You live on the very edge of being killed at any moment.
I wanna all of you to know that majority of my MM fic is written during night air attacks. Russia attacks Ukraine basicly every night with drones nowadays, so you end up filling time of sitting in shelter with something, uncluding writting.
In the future, I really wanna read about the fact how (fucking disgraceful) russian invasion on ukraine expanded ukraine literature
Humans continue to human in the most hellish of circumstances, and by "human" I don't mean "do bad things," I mean, "tell stories."
Gotta love that deoxyribo acid guys đđŸ no ACTG needed here đđŸ
DANDA
Not to be confused with DND, in which the n stands for nucleic
I'd play Dungeons Nucleic Dragons
No you dont get to keep that in the tags
Another update
Because I feel like kids of color donât hear it enough: domestic abuse is not a part of your culture.Â
A lot of us were raised with the idea that âits normal for wives/children to get hit! it helps them learnâ only white folk donât get beaten when they misbehaveâ. Thatâs not true, white people arenât the only ones who deserve a safe and abuse free environment. Black and brown people can and do have loving families.Â
If youâre in a situation where you are enduring abuse and people use your culture to justify it, I want you to know that what theyâre telling you are lies.
The idea that nonwhite cultures are somehow based on abuse is so prevalent that my mandatory reporting abuse seminar had an entire section in it about how this is bullshit and we shouldnât ignore abused indigenous kids.
this may sound trivial but it seems telling to me: many, MANY cultures the world over have a version of Cinderella in their literary canon
that shit isnât normal. for anyone.
As someone who has finally accepted that being hit isnât normal as it appears, itâs so frustrating to oppose abusive parents only for them to say âoh we only hit you because we love you and want you to be a better personâ âwhen parents hit you, it isnât abuse, itâs just another way to show loveâ âit hurts us more to hurt kids, but you have to teach them things anyhowâ like. No. Thatâs not how shit works.
Everytime I tell them that hitting kids shouldnât be normalise, as in, no parent should be hitting their kids, ever, my mother brings up some obscure ass topic about how âwhat about kids that murder other people?â âWhat about underage teens who do drugs or crimes?â LIKE, WHY WOULD YOU COMPARE A VERY TINY FRACTION OF MISCELLANEOUS CASE TO THE WIDE SPREAD APPARENTLY CULTURAL (/s) THING OF HITTING YOUR PARTNERS (esp women) AND CHILDREN??
Make it make sense??
Obsessed with the idea that spanking a murderer will make them stop killing
Born to don't wanna. Forced to gotta
coworker: hey you should come look at the results of a ph test for a customerâs water
me: Iâm king of busy rn
coworker: no really just come here
the ph test:
my honest reaction:
I dont k ow what OP is testing for or what most of the table says but whatever water they've sampled it has the same PH levels as seawater and there's enough mineral content for stalagmites to form inside the sample container. If line 2 is nitrates- the stuff produced by dead junk- then there's enough of it to make them sick.
So like. Whatever this is, and I hope to God it isn't someone's tap water, then as far as my untrained brain can tell, it is reading as a sample pulled from an unfiltered saltwater fish tank that someone filled with street gravel and didn't clean for a month.
Or like. The groundwater well behind an abandoned farm house in Missouri that hasn't been touched since 1953, possibly after a raccoon fell inside it
This is the kind of water you'd read about in an old dead British guy's expedition journal in an entry dated two days before the entire party died of dysentery
tell me something nice
if you grow mushrooms over a toxic waste site, chemical spill, or other polluted growing medium, they will suck up the toxins into their fruiting bodies with such effectiveness that they are being studied for their ability to clean up tainted industrial sites. itâs called mycoremediation.
if you do this with edible mushrooms, they are no longer technically edible, but on the other hand they make a great way to poison your enemies. this is called murder and itâs usually frowned upon, but they wonât see it coming and you get bragging rights afterwards about your ability to kill people with a pizza topping.
Sorry this was not precisely most peopleâs idea of ânice.â Let me add that you are a glow of comforting absurdity in an ever-more-fucked-up world.
I love everything about mycoremediation, but also
Slightly on the topic of removing toxic waste:
A hairdresser noticed that with oil spills, one of the biggest issues was the impact on wildlife because oil loves clinging to fur and feathers.
They used felting methods to create like a mat of hair & used it on a small scale test & it worked really well, the hair mainly stayed on top of the water like the oil & absorbed it like a sponge while leaving creatures & plants alone.
NASA is now working on large scale uses with the help of donated clippings from hair dressers and pet groomers.
And the hair can then be composted with the help of mushrooms.
Can we just talk about what a great dad Ukitake would make? I always knew that he was the more caring and understanding sort based on his interactions with his squad members (Rukia included) but seeing him with his twin zanpakuto boys in this arc just confirmed it for me. He lets them play, plays with them when he has time, scolds them when theyâre out of hand but is never so forceful so as to make them feel like theyâre bad kids. The bonus is seeing his interactions with Lilynette in the Hueco Mundo arc - again⊠doesnât want to fight her and insists that she should go home but when she tries to attack him, he defends himself and then turns it into a lesson where he ends up giving her training! Only Ukitake could do something like that and itâs almost unsurprising. He really is a lovely captain - bad ass when he needs to be but gentle and understanding for the most part. Bless.
god forbid 5000 year old girls do anything
holy shit bronze age pro sheep bone gamer girl
Of Sin and Sinners
Itâs very confusing to me how some refuse to accept that Mairon/Sauron can feel âhuman-likeâ emotions like love or lust, while projecting human-like traits like ânarcissismâ or âsociopathyâ onto his character.
Sauron is a immortal deity, who was created by Eru himself. Heâs one of the Ainur; he helped shape the world during the AinulindalĂ«, the âmusic of the Ainurâ. He looks at Middle-earth in ruins and thinks the Valar have forsaken it. He steps in because, in his mindset, heâs the only deity willing to do something about it. Of course heâs âarrogantâ, and thinks he owns the place. He helped creating it, in the first place.
You all also conveniently forget just how alike Sauron and Galadriel actually are, and why they are each others foils to begin with. Many of you are falling into the same trap as the âlorebrosâ by ignoring that character arcs exist and that âRings of Powerâ Galadriel is thousands of years away from her Third Age persona. Sheâs not the âLady of Lightâ yet, and even Sauron himself has just begun his âDark Lordâ arc.
Not only Sauron and Galadriel are both arrogant, but self-righteous, too. They both love to be on power-trips. They lie left and right, and manipulate others to get their way. We saw Galadriel do this in both Season 1 and 2, already. They both use others for their own ends. They donât care about rules, they are their own authority. They are used to get their way, and get pissed when they donât. They both turned their backs on the Valar (returning to Valinor/refusing their judgement) for the same reason: pride. They know each others minds because they are alike.
Of course Sauron wants her as his queen; sheâs the perfect pair for him. And together they would, indeed, wreck havoc. This would be a power couple of nightmares, for everyone around them. There would be no escaping them, they would enslave everyone to their will. They are both beautiful, and Sauron is seductive. He already brought this side of Galadriel to the surface in Season 1, when we saw her flirting with him (and this is probably the explanation for Tolkien approval of Boormanâs script).
I read a lot of people saying that Sauron would destroy Galadrielâs light if she joined him. Actually, she would be far worse than Sauron. Tolkien did say that Gandalf would be worse than Sauron if he had the One Ring, and this is true for Galadriel as well. Which explains these quotes from her:
She recognizes this, sheâs not that self-deluded. Sheâs talking about herself on a power-trip, not about how Sauron would âdestroyâ her.
This headcanon (and Iâve seen this in the Galadriel x Sauron fandom, too) that Galadriel is some âpure of heart she-elf, holy and divine-like characterâ is extremely bizarre, because this is not what we are being shown in âRings of Powerâ. Nor is it what Tolkien himself wrote. For starters, Tolkien, being extremely religious, would never copy-paste his faith into magical elves. The characters that are granted with that imprint are the Valar themselves because they are meant to be of divine nature (the actual Gods of his lore). And Tolkien himself went back and forward with this idea, too. Maybe he felt it was too blasphemous, I donât know.
This will be my wildest take yet, but Halbrand turning out to be Sauron is a aphrodisiac for Galadriel, actually. She wanted the king, yes, because the smith wasnât good enough. But at the end of the day, Halbrand was a Southlander, a âlow manâ: Galadriel tells him this once they arrived at NĂșmenor in 1x03 (âthese men are not like youâ). But he turned out to be the most powerful being around, and he wants her at his side. And you can bet that only makes her want him even more. And Sauron is probably aware of this, too.
This is why heâs grinning here: you thought I was a mere âlow manâ, did you? Even with him on his repentant era, we saw Maironâs self-control in Season 1. He allowed Galadriel to say all kinds of arrogant stuff to him, and saved this grin for last. His pride was the reason why he couldnât bring himself to face the Valarâs judgment, after all.
Besides: was she truly deceived by Sauron, or did she deceived herself, in Season 1? Because sheâs the one who kept pushing the king of the Southlands onto him, and even acted behind his back with Queen MĂriel. This is why Elrond calls her out on her bullsh*t on Season 2: âit was entirely of your choosingâ. She wanted the lost king who could ride her to victory, and Sauron delivered.
Thereâs a lot of misunderstanding of the kind of villain Sauron actually is. Heâs a cautionary tale of âbe careful of what you wish forâ. Thatâs why heâs the seductive power that makes every dream come true. Listen to Adar, heâs the one who spills the tea in âRings of Powerâ. Sauron is a sharer of gifts, a wish granter, but it comes with a cost. And heâs not âchaotic evilâ, heâs pure âlawful evilâ; heâs methodic, a control freak and highly organized. And thatâs why heâs able to gain an insane amount of power for a mere Maia.
Indeed it was; Galadriel went to Eregion, is standing there, and has the Nine, because itâs by Sauronâs design. Everything he did was to culminate in this scene. Heâs a mastermind, he planned everything. And you all actually believe it was Elrond on that tent, as if Sauron, the control freak, would let anything to chance. As he so cynically says, himself:
Sauron was able to perceive Finrod, Beren & co infiltrated his fortress masquerading as Orcs, because the Orcs were acting weird. This is how calculating he truly is. Morgoth was the brute force, Sauron was the mind. And you can bet Morgothâs overworked secretary Sauron had everything catalogued, curated and organized by size, shape and color, back at Angband fortress. He had that thing running like clockwork. He was created as a Maia of order, after all.
For my Zodiac enthusiastics out there: this villain is peak Virgo energy. Everyone associates Sauron with fire, but nah, his whole personality is Earth element-coded (and AulĂ« himself is very connected with Earth element, not only by creating mountains and gems/minerals, but heâs also married to âQueen of the Earthâ, Yavanna).
He did had some bumps along the way: killing Celebrimbor in a rage fit, and Galadriel getting captured by Adar, but it all worked out for him in the end (except Galadriel throwing herself off a cliff, he wasnât counting on that one, either):
We saw him lose control in âRings of Powerâ and acting chaotic because it was meant to symbolize his return to âhis old waysâ, his fall into evil again, into Morgothâs servitude. Morgoth was âchaotic evilâ, he was the nihilistic God who wanted to destroy and corrupt everything Eru created. This is not Sauronâs character at its core.
And this is not âgaslightingâ either. This is Sauron actually talking facts. It was Celebrimborâs arrogance and vanity that allowed him to âfall preyâ to Sauron. And he, indeed, chose it. Because Celebrimbor wanted to surpass FĂ«anor, he wanted to craft legendary objects, he wanted to create a mythos like his grandfatherâs Silmarils. And Sauron gave him just that. Celebrimborâs sins are pride (vanity), greed and envy.
Celebrimbor couldnât care less about Halbrand (the âlow manâ); he used his knowledge and then forgot about him, not because Galadriel told him to, but because Halbrand was no longer useful to him. He had already forged the Three Elven rings of power (to help the Elves cheat death). And is with this that Sauron tempts him, again. And he becomes the emissary of the Valar because thatâs what Celebrimbor wanted, thatâs the validation he was seeking (like Galadriel wanted the king of the Southlands).
This goes back to Adar in 2x06:
Adar: But sooner or later, he sees you. Not just who you are, but who you wish to be. His eye bores a hole and the rest of him slithers in. For a while, he even makes you believe that his power has become yours. Irresistible power... that makes every desire's fulfillment seem inevitable. An ocean of color against which everything else feels forever thereafter... Galadriel: A dull gray. Adar: What did he promise you? [...] Do you want to know what he offered me? [...] Children. Galadriel: Then it would seem he gave us both what we desired. Adar: You see, it is not his lies which must be extinguished. It is him.
And this is perfectly aligned with Tolkien religious message: sin, and the price to pay for being a sinner.
These characters are not âhopeless victimsâ of Sauron. They are active participants on their own torment by choosing to sin, and this is symbolically represented by them aligning themselves with evil (Sauron). This is pure Christian doctrine. The showrunners have to spin it into âmodern takesâ of âdomestic abuseâ or whatever for the audience to understand, but thatâs not the core message here. This is Tolkien preaching, folks. This is Tolkien saying âyou all need Jesusâ.
Adar and Galadriel parallel each other in a lot of ways, too. In Tolkien lore, Galadriel is described as ârepentant sinnerâ. And Adar is a repentant sinner, too, making amends.
In the legendarium, Galadrielâs sins are pride and greed (power hungry). And âRings of Powerâ built upon this and added a new one: lust. She turned her back on the Valar, and thatâs why sheâs banished from Valinor (heaven) in the first place.
Iâve read some speculating that sheâs not actually banished and only remains on Middle-earth because she wants to. But no, that doesnât fit Tolkien lore; the legendarium is fluid, and allows for multiple interpretations, but the core message needs to be there, all the same. Galadrielâs punishment for sinning is to be banished from heaven and she needs to repent to be allowed to return. This make complete sense with Tolkienâs work and his religious views.
But in âRings of Powerâ, Galadrielâs greed is also connected with her love for Halbrand/Sauron (and I already talked about this here). So far, we havenât see Galadriel expressing her desire to have a kingdom of her own; itâs Sauron that introduces this point, and heâs the reason why she refuses the Valarâs pardon and stays on Middle-earth, to begin with (to hunt him down).
Meaning: the reason for Galadrielâs banishment will have to be connected with Sauron in âRings of Powerâ, because thatâs the angle the show is exploring and working on, and they canât ignore her banishment because thatâs a huge deal in her overall characterâs arc, and why she becomes âLady of Lightâ and fights Sauron. When she rejects Frodoâs offer of the One Ring in the Third Age itâs her last temptation, and she humbles herself and proves to the Valar that sheâs worthy of returning to Valinor, at last.
And this leads me to another notion: catholic guilt. I was raised catholic in a extremely catholic country (itâs cultural), so I recognize many of Tolkienâs religious background on his work without trying (he, too, was a catholic), and the Tolkien experts of âRings of Powerâ seem to be heading in this direction, too, and that explains why Galadriel and Sauron have romantic and sexual chemistry, and thereâs so much sexual innuendo in their interactions.
A crown (clitorical symbol = vagina) penetrating a sword (phallic symbol = penis)? âRings of Powerâ canât get any more obvious than this with the Freudian symbolism.
âCatholic guiltâ is the deep feeling of shame after having sinned. This is often associated with sex, and having a high sex drive (usually females). And this makes perfect sense with the Eldar customs (sex = marriage; sex = children; and other puritan views of sexual acts), and why any Elf would feel deeply ashamed, guilty and in need of repenting for thousands of years (âcatholic guiltâ) after going against these rules.
What does this mean? Galadriel will get a taste of that D, sooner or later. And it makes more sense for it to happen when heâs fully Sauron (and not Halbrand), indeed. Because then, she canât racionalize it as âhaving been deceivedâ. And for that sense of deep shame and guilt to kick in, sheâll have to want it, too; it has to be consensual, on her part.
And for this sheâll be punished (banished from Valinor) and will have to repent for thousands of years into the future. Even if they donât explicitly say this on the show (which they wonât, not only they wonât go there but this religious message doesnât really fit nowadays standards). I highly doubt any this will be explicit, at all, but there will be innuendo, symbolism, and clues of this happening in future seasons. It might even happen in Season 3, actually (in connection with Galadriel spiraling down into darkness as a consequence of Morgothâs crown wound).
On Galadrielâs Whitewashing by the Fandom
Allow me to rant. Because at this point I really have to ask this: what show have you all been watching? Many say that Sauron deceives the audience, but it was actually Galadriel who deceived you all, really.
In Season 1 and Season 2, we saw Galadriel using others left and right, for her own ends (including Halbrand, MĂriel, Adar, etc.). Her character introduction in Season 1, was her beating the sh*t out of some kids over a paper boat. Then, we saw her treating her companionsâ lives as if they meant nothing to her. This alone should tell you something, but no, you wanted to see the âfeminist heroâ that never was. She was acting like... Sauron, when he ditched the humans on the raft.Â
Nah, you think?
Throughout Season 1, she was arrogant, high on herself and downright offensive to pretty much every character she came across. She was constantly acting as if she was better than everyone else, and others were beneath her, because of her delusions of grandeur. She disobeys Gil-galad over and over again because she doesnât truly recognize his authority. Heâs younger than her, and in her mind sheâs the one who should be High Queen of the Noldor, because sheâs the only surviving child of High King Finarfin. She lied and manipulated others to her own ends... like Sauron.
When your ways of manipulation are more radical than Sauronâs.
Allow me to say this once more: âRings of Powerâ has Tolkien experts to assist with the writings of the scripts. Christian doctrine and preaching is a huge deal on Tolkienâs work, and even if the show producers donât see it or donât recognize it, itâs still there because itâs inevitable, you can't work Tolkien without it.
What does this mean? Galadriel is not a hero. Pride and greed are not good traits in Tolkien lore. Sheâs not one of the âgood guysâ. Not yet, and sheâll only get worse before she gets better. Sheâs not a villain, either; sheâs an anti-hero like Adar. Why do you all think Satanâs little helper Sauron got so interested in her, in the first place?Â
When Sauron of all characters gives you the side-eye and tells you to chill and tone down your antagonistic behavior.
And was she deceived by Sauron or did she deceive herself? Because Elrond, as usual, is right, and thatâs why he calls her out on her bullsh*t in Season 2: Galadriel wanted the lost king who could ride her to victory, to destroy Sauron and cover herself in glory, being worshipped by everyone on Middle-earth as its savior. She wanted to use Halbrand as a pawn in her big plan, and itâs mind blowing she actually fell in love with him. Does this ring any bells? Itâs because itâs Sauronâs plan, too. They are alike. Everyone agrees, but doesnât realize just how much.
You think they showed us these glorious shots of them for âgoodâ reasons? This is the first of Maironâs deceptions on Season 1, another step closer to evil and his old ways. This is them high on power and on themselves.
Gil-galad foresaw that Galadriel would bring back Sauron if her pursuit for him would to continue. Thatâs why he sent her back to Valinor, in the first place. Guess what? He was right. It was Galadrielâs actions that condemned Middle-earth to Sauronâs tyranny. In the legendarium, the Elves are also the ones to blame. And what consequences did she faced for this? Enduring Elrond in charge for two episodes until she went rogue? Or perhaps the Valar have already banished her, and the show failed to mention this.Â
Preach it, brother!
Elrond was also the only character who could see through Sauronâs ârings of powerâ masterplan (must be that Melianâs Maia blood kicking in), until he was deceived himself, as well, and now he also thinks the rings are a good thing. Because these rings allowed the Elves to âcheat deathâ and stay where they donât belong. âRings of Powerâ made this point very clear in Season 1: the Southlanders donât want the Elves on their lands, they are invaders.
In truth, all of these characters are not only Sauronâs accomplices, but are feeding off his power, but they are acting as if they are the âgood guysâ here, and they need to save Middle-earth from the new Dark Lord. No wonder the Valar told them to f*ck off, and only sent a few helpers who didnât even dealt with Sauron directly, even though they (being Maiar themselves) had the power to do that.
Long story, short: for the love of Eru, stop whitewashing Galadrielâs character, or believing her to be some sort of âVirgin Maryâ nonsense type of character. Or if you actually think her behavior is somehow heroic I donât even know what to tell you, honestly. Because itâs not suppose to be. And if you were upset with her âtoning downâ in Season 2, oh boy, I might have bad news for you.
We should appreciate Galadrielâs character for what it is; an anti-hero seeking redemption. She f*cks up a lot, is flawed, and makes huge mistakes, and thatâs what will make her character arc feel earned and compelling. In that way, sheâs the opposite of Sauron; as he falls into evil, she raises up to good; the Lady of Light and the Dark Lord. This is actually refreshing in the midst of so many boring-ass one-dimensional female characters we see nowadays, an ideal of perfection no one can relate to.