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firagasoap

Broccoli Knuckle Duster by David Delahunty

ma-gpie

tanou123

New Orleans ❤

doctorslippery

Thunderstorm jazz is freaking awesome. I need an album of that. I’d sleep like a baby.

escuerzoresucitado

findingfeather

Well, you know. You can't expect the chimpanzee to have the same mature, grounded and self-deprecating sense of humour about it all that Jane Goodall has. That's asking a bit much.

kuttithevangu

It’s actually not that impressive if you can train a malinois. Their whole deal is being trainable. Come back when you can train a basset hound to do all that

curieously

reminds me of my favourite heelwork to music routine from crufts 2024 which I still think was robbed the gold

its usually border collie after border collie after herding breed, then suddenly Very Fluffy Sighthound!! winner in my heart

kuttithevangu

Fabio!!!

quasi-normalcy

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

quasi-normalcy

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

quasi-normalcy

#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain

Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"

thebluewizardsaregay

apparently i’m a millennial woman

alatariel-galadriel

I mean, yeah, valid! but but but I also want to add on the fact that lotr AGGRESSIVELY rejects the “grimdark” and “gritty” settings that is so prevalent in fantasy (and also in general) right now, because I physically can not shut up about it

It is hope and love and compassion that saves each character individually, and because of that, the world. Frodo fails in the end, but his acts of compassion from earlier in the story save the day. And even as the world is saved, it is acknowledged that Frodo failed—without judgement, without blame. He fails, and he is still loved.

And like what can happen in the real world, he is still irrevocably changed by his trauma. But there is still hope—he has to leave, but he leaves with the promise of healing, and the promise that his ever-faithful Sam will follow.

Aragorn, Boromir, Frodo, Sam; each and every one of the characters are driven by their love of the people around them and their hope for the future. They cling to that love and hope throughout their trials, and that bears them through.

Of course people are watching it for comfort!!!! Lotr is eternally consistent in its promise, which Sam articulates so clearly in The Two Towers: “Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it’ll shine out the clearer.”

Things are dark and awful and terrible, but it will not be that way forever. That is the promise of LOTR. A promise of hope, and the reminder that it is love and compassion—for our friends, for our families, for the strangers we’ve never even met—that will save us in the end.

great-and-small

draquus

I just want to add, it’s not just that The Lord of the Rings rejects grimdark and gritty fantasy - The Lord of the Rings is the original. Grimdark is what you get when you reject the bright half of the eucatastrophe.

valtsv

time to make a post on tumblr. surely no one will interpret it to be as offensive and bad intentioned as possible.

valtsv

by talos this cant be happening

duckbunny

remember when websites were written on purpose, and not generated by autocomplete in the instant you run the web search? anyway, unrelated, this webpage purporting to relay expert knowledge on which plants are safe for my snake's tank just told me I would know if he was biting them and getting irritated because he would start pawing at his mouth.

tarragonthedragon

i mean, that sure would be a sign something was wrong

duckbunny

the plant that makes you grow extra legs

cnestus

Tetraopes femoratus

beemovieerotica

thehmn

I wanted to test if there’s really a saint for everything by seeing if every job I’ve ever had had a saint, and yes, they all do. Even dishwasher. I present to you Saint Bonaventure

He was washing dishes when a delegation came to inform him he had been chosen to become cardinal but refused to talk with them before he had finished his job. To him menial work was far more holy and important than glitter and power and he even told the delegation to hang the cardinal robes on a tree outside while he continued washing dishes.

Have fun finding your own patron saints.