MissZombieQueen

Freelance writer and editor. Twitter refugee. Tumblr is the Hotel California

[kaijufluffs]

Welcome back to Tumblr :)

[miss-zombie-queen]

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

[miss-zombie-queen]

Well. I'm back. Again. Oh boy.

[beyoncus]

#when someone leaves me with their dog.

[fredgolds]

tbh nothing is weirder to me than manly grimdark dudebro lord of the rings bc it’s just??? the epitome of light and love to me???? no narrative embodies hope and gentleness and healing like lotr does why must you insist on talking to me about badass aragorn vs. useless frodo. that’s not the point brad

[scribefindegil]

I feel like this is also why so many of the post-LOTR Tolkien ripoffs are so terrible! It’s people pulling from Tolkien when they fundamentally don’t understand what makes Tolkien work. You get all these stories written by people who don’t think Frodo was worthy of his plotline and so they give it to their Aragorn expy instead, and it’s dull and boring and totally lacks the themes and the heart that make LOTR an important, enduring story.

[booktolkien]

#lord of the rings is about beauty and love and good and hope and gentleness in the face of overwhelming sadness and darkness#less about the battlefields and more about frodo and Sam holding hands through Shelob’s lair#and Galadriel’s star-glass in the darkness of mordor#overwhelmingly the point is beauty and love#even though those things are tinged in sadness#the reason I can never get into any other fantasy stories is because they focus on the battles and the hardship#and not about the beauty and the love and the sadness#‘I will not say do not weep for not all tears are an evil’ (tags from @greyacedipperpines)

[cumaeansibyl]

when Aragorn shows up in Gondor no one cares who he is until he gets to the Houses of Healing, because the proof of true kingship is not being able to fight real good, it’s having “the hands of a healer”

so Aragorn calls his friends back from the darkness with little more than a gentle touch and a loving voice (and some plants, but it’s pretty clear that the plants alone aren’t enough) and that’s when the rumors spread through Gondor that the King has returned because the love of a king has this great power

like… that’s the big moment. washing his friends’ wounds and telling them they’re going to be okay. this is not macho! it’s not badass! I mean… in a way it’s actually really fucking badass that someone can get stabbed by a knife made of evil and Aragorn doesn’t even have to raise his voice when he says “not today,” but it’s not, like, standard fantasy badass.

[hamletthedane]

Tolkien lived through a war. War is not entertaining and epic, it’s horrifying and terrible. That’s why all the climatic moments of LOTR aren’t battles, but decisions of love: Sam going back for Frodo, Bilbo giving Bard the Arkenstone, Aragorn healing Merry and Eowyn…

Where modern fantasy falls short is they think a war setting is the key to Tolkien’s success, so they describe warrior-man and the gorey, rapey, traumatizing things he does/sees (looking at u, SOIAF). But it’s not about fighting the war, it’s about living through it and loving despite it. Bilbo Baggins slept through his battles, Frodo and Sam (arguably, the main heroes) never fought or killed, a woman & hobbit defeated the witch-king out of love for their lord, not for power or fame. LOTR isn’t a story of war bc Tolkien had already seen that, it’s the story of hope.

[catchymemes]

[miss-zombie-queen]

@molecule-girl oh god

[karazrel]

[weiila]

The first time you see how cashew nuts grow, you’re gonna think somebody’s posting a joke picture or a weird art installation.

[whitetigerdemoness]

ok but you say this….then don’t give us pictures 

[weiila]

LOOK AT THESE RIDICULOUS THINGS

[brigdh]

And it gets even weirder!

The shell of the nut itself:

contains a resin that’s so toxic just touching it causes burns to the skin, similar to poison ivy. Which is why cashews are never sold unshelled, because processing them requires safety measures like this:

How humanity ever figured out to eat this nut is beyond me.

[rowandriftwood]

In case you ever wondered why cashews are so expensive. Now you can wonder why they aren’t more expensive.

[animatedamerican]

what i’m wondering now is how anybody ever found out that you could eat cashews

[nymph1e]

OK but you seem to underestimate how scarce food could get for people, and how desperate they become to try anything. If eating it raw kills you? try cooking it because we’re gonna starve to death anyway. Cooking it kills you? Try cooking it a different way. Touching it is painful? Try washing it, or extracting the inner bit and washing that.

There’s this plant that’s eaten by aboriginal people of australia around where I live. Only certain parts of this plant can be eaten, and even then only if those parts are cooked exactly right, kept at a certain temperature for a certain amount of time. And it has to be exactly that amount of time as both undercooking it AND overcooking it are deadly.

The history of food is a history fraught with countless, terrible deaths because we are so stubborn that when faced with starvation, we will fucking eat poison again and again until it’s not poison anymore.

[note-a-bear]

Some Paleolithic chef “I know like five people died already, but I think I got it this time.”

Some different, starving, Paleolithic person “fuck it bro. Gimme the nut.”

[onion-souls]

Cassava, one of the world’s stable sources of carbohydrates, can easily lead to cyanide poisoning if improperly prepared.

Rhubarb leaves can outright kill you or cause convulsions.Tomatoes and potatoes are in the nightshade family. Castor beans contain ricin, and lima beans have to be cooked thoroughly to force out the cyanide as gas.

It’s pretty nuts what we’ll eat.

[strongorcbutch-deactivated20220]

Have you ever seen someone who hit you so hard right in the gay feels that you lost your sense of hearing for a few moments?

[strongorcbutch-deactivated20220]

To all the poor gay messes desperately asking who she is, her name is Katy M. O'Brian and the pictures in the OP are from the series Z Nation. Here’s some other pictures.

You’re all welcome.

[poetry-protest-pornography]

I- I just… *useless bisexual flailing*

Help.

[memewhore]

[nudityandnerdery]

[rejectedprincesses]

Vitka Kempner (1920-2012): Avenger of the Holocaust

Sorry, I know that was insanely long. At least I only post these like once a month. It was also very difficult to write. As you can imagine, there’s a ton I had to leave out, even long as this is. Full entry here.

Art notes and whatnot behind the cut. As an FYI: I will be traveling for about a month and a half, so I won’t be updating very frequently. But for people in Portland: I will be at Rose City Comic Con - and to people in the UK, I will be at Thought Bubble UK.

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[horrorvillage]

please watch this

[midnight-defender-deactivated20]

wow, this might be the only realistic portrayal of metalheads I’ve seen in media

[browningtons-1-deactivated20150]

[bitchatar]

Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse (2018)

[under-the-arch]

[eldritchgarfield]

[puppypresident]

i saw into the spiderverse today

[mccoppinscrapyard]

#what i really like about Helga are her proportions 

#she’s thin but muscular and has some curves

#but she’s also tall which is unusual for an animated woman 

#and her eyes don’t take up half her face 

#and she has broad shoulders which i like

Thank you, creators of Atlantis.

[k-lionheart-deactivated20171126]

Helga deserved more

[saintdollyparton]

We are all gay.

[mcmansionhell]

2018

literally the McMansion of years. here’s to 2019, which is hopefully shaping up to be more of a mildly ugly condo building, you know, with some fake wood cladding, or massing that is just a *little* bit off.