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Here are three things that I know are true, unranked by order and importance:

1. When you are stabbed, you’re supposed to keep the blade in so you don’t bleed out. 2. I’m very bad at saying ‘I love you’. 3. We know more about the moon than we do about the ocean.

Some footnotes about each of these:

1. I have never been stabbed, no have I known anyone who has been stabbed. 2. Of course, I can say it, I just never feel like I mean it. 3. By ‘we’, I don’t mean myself, but oceanographers and astronomers that have pooled their collective knowledge and drawn the above conclusion.

I know a good amount of other things, but these three in specific have an unwelcome place in my twisting chest. Why does getting stabbed hurt twice? Why can’t an act of good be just that? Why do we know less about something I could touch right now, if I pleased? None of this sits right with me. Does it sit right with you?

Are you even listening?

I think you should put that knife down. It hurts you twice, you know. Here, I’ll hold onto it for you, I’ve got a great spot for it.

Oh, God. I hope it hurts less on the way out.

Can I tell you about the ocean? I know more about the ocean than I do about the moon. Would you mind if I talked about the ocean for a while? Please. Please let me talk about something else.

Please say something.

I’m sorry I took your knife. Is that what you want to hear? I’m sorry I took your knife, and I’m sorry I stuck it in my chest, and I’m sorry I’m getting blood on the sand. It just looked like you might do something stupid, like put it in your throat, and I don’t want you to die like that. Okay? I’m sorry. Will you look at me now? I don’t understand why you’re angry. Look at me. Look at me. I just want to tell you about the ocean. Some fish can glow in the dark. Isn’t that interesting?

Isn’t it?

I love you.

Please I’ll say anything. I love you. See, I said it, I said it just for you.

Are you even listening?

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Erwin Beekveld - They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard 2005

"They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard" is a video that was published on August 16th, 2005, by Dutch musician and photographer Erwin Beekveld, as a Flash-animation on the website Albino Blacksheep. In 2006, it was re-posted to Youtube, where it gained over 12.5 million views and 38,900 comments in the first seven years. The two-minute video composed of multiple fragments from the film trilogy The Lord of the Rings became an internet meme, and has obtained a cult status mostly among fans of this trilogy. It is built out of scenes from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. In the video, actor Orlando Bloom is seen playing the elf Legolas, who repeats the line "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!" He is occasionally interrupted by Gollum (played by Andy Serkis), and also by Marton Csokas as Celeborn, who repeatedly inquires the whereabouts of Gandalf.

The dialogue is rhythmically set to a techno version of music originally composed by Howard Shore for the movies' soundtracks, and contains among others the leitmotif of the song "Concerning Hobbits". The song caught the attention of participants of a discussion forum sponsored by the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, in which the dactylic quality of the song's prosody was discussed at length. (Read it here!)

In the book Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection, "They’re Taking the Hobbits to Isengard" is mentioned as an example for the amendment on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, an American law concerning the author's copyright on digital media. The amendment from 2010 made it legal, under certain conditions, to use fragments from movies and television shows in personal videos. Musicologist Michael L. Klein (Professor at the Temple University of Philadelphia) mentions "They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard" in his book Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject as an example of a meme and mash-up as the pinnacle of creativity in the postmodern age.

In 2013, after Orlando Bloom finished filming his final scenes on the set of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, director Peter Jackson published a video in which Bloom, dressed up as Legolas, sings along with "They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard". In the next five days, the video received more than 6.9 million views and 7,200 comments. In an interview for Rude Tube in 2013, Beekveld says people love or hate him for making the video, due to its catchy tune, and that it made him very happy to see Bloom sing along with his remix eight years later, which he states is the ultimate recognition. On 30 March 2022, Beekveld died of lung cancer at the age of 52.

"They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard" received a total of 82,5% yes votes!

outromoony

Remus: I don’t want to ruin what we have.

Sirius: I’d rather be his best friend forever than risk losing him.

Regulus: This is why people drink.

sonicguillotine-deactivated2025

Hamilton and Bridgerton are media designed for soft social conservatives with progressive delusions because they believe in an expansive racial nationalism where a diverse group of people can participate in the oppression of their so-called inferiors instead of an exclusionary racial nationalism where only the homogenous select few can oppress the many. I called this a “delusion of progressiveness” because all it can imagine is diverse oppressors committing the same atrocities and building the same institutions of power as the less diverse real oppressors these stories model themselves off of.

What does it mean for the slave in general or Sally Hemmings in specific that in this batshit fantasy Thomas Jefferson is a Black slave owner who raps? Not a goddamn thing, but the presentation of these fantasies allow the viewer to accept the “good” of colonial history (through blatant ahistorical revisionism) while seemingly rejecting the “bad” elements (which we can only assume to the liberal audience means that in the real world Thomas Jefferson sadly is neither Black nor raps, not that he owned and raped his slaves). This is obviously only a surface aesthetic level criticism of the “bad” elements, as the liberal audience is content to resolve the racism of these eras by merely brownwashing white supremacists as if that changes the content of their politics or real world effect on the racialized.

Imagine a film about Nazi Germany where the writers thought the most pressing concern with that system is that Himmler didn’t celebrate Hanukkah or spoke Yiddish. Maybe one of the Nazi officials responsible for their banning of jazz records was actually a Black man in this telling. See how this doesn’t change anything about those historical atrocities? You’re still describing a deeply racist, unequal world in which the impoverished slave and worker is crushed by their “superiors” (the ruling class).

Diversifying oppression means nothing and is melting your fucking brain because you’re accepting a fantasy in which white slave owners being cast as rapping Black men soothes your criticisms of the entire American project. And it isn’t based on anything real, you’re projecting a “progressiveness” to American society and government that is 100% cope, based on honestly incredibly disgusting racist depictions of the oppressed as being the agents of their own oppression (in Hamilton and Bridgerton, state leaders are Black benefiting from the wealth of enslaving Black people, what do you think that’s supposed to convey?). How yall are able to then do this with the Regency era British Empire is beyond me. It makes me think the all Jewish, Romani and Black retelling of Nazi Germany is not only inevitable but will be acclaimed by fandom types.

thetiredprometheus

lotr but nobody knows anything about the other races

Pippin thinks Legolas is a woman

Boromir is convinced that the hobbits are all 15 max

Everyone thinks that Merry and Pippin are twins, except for Legolas, who is convinced the hobbits are quadruplets

Sam thinks that Aragorn, Boromir and Legolas don't have to eat to survive

Legolas doesn't mention things he sees or hears because he thinks the others have noticed them too and just assumes they have a plan

Pippin complains that he is hungry and Legolas just gives him a handful of grass. Pippin is so confused that he just takes it, and now Legolas tries to figure out what hobbits can eat by just giving them random shit, like

Things the hobbits have accepted and likely eaten later (a list by legolas)

-Grass - Leaves

-Stones - a hair tie

-A feather - one of Gimli's shoes

The hobbits and Gimli just assume that this is what elves eat

specialagentartemis

“Be curious about what you’re writing about” is not stock Common Writing Advice but it really, really should be. There are a lot of written works that fail due to the authors just being obviously incurious about what they are writing about.

What do you do the morning after an election?

November 6th, 2024

Why is no one talking about it?

I bury my head in my duvet.

Do I just go about my day?

I roll over and try not to check my phone.

What if what if what if?

I last 3 minutes.

What do we do now?

Tuck myself into the corner of the couch,

Alternate between CNN and Fox news and Instagram and Facebook,

What do I do now?

Go for a run, hoping repetitive strides might lull my mind,

Pass lawn signs and sidewalk art; hot glued and scribbled by little hands,

Imagine the parents who must pluck them from the earth,

Piling cardboard in dumpsters like corpses, still warm with the ghost of hope.

They send their daughters to school like soldiers to war,

Rain blurs chalk dreams into imperceptible colors,

Do we just throw it all away?

mysillycomics

ashstfu

kurt vonnegut, being good at things is not the point of doing them.

reikacchan

don't give up

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5-dollars-in-the-slug-jar

Some examples of a fun historical practice called postmortem photography or death portraits, in which family members would photograph their loved one after they had passed away. Often they would be posed or propped up in a natural-looking position, and sometimes eyes were painted on top of the deceased’s closed eyelids to make them appear alive.

e-the-village-cryptid

oh this is fucked up I love it

jenny-jinya

TW: animal death / animal neglect

I wanted to draw this comic for a long time, but I never knew how to approach this issue. In my childhood all my friends had budgies, all of them were put aside somewhere and left alone. Treated like “annoying” decoration. Don’t get a bird if you can’t meet its needs.

grauntiemotersblog

I-.. HEY YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO TREAT THESE WONDERFUL BEINGS LIKE FAMILY! I TREAT MY BUDGIES LIKE MY OWN CHILDREN, AND I DON’T EVEN HAVE CHILDREN!

@thehugwizard @the-rogue-hug-thief

YALL BETTER BOOST THIS OR IM TAKING YOUR KNEECAPS, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!

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When I was young my dad offhandedly told me he thought people treated fish with so much casual cruelty because fish can’t scream.

The words branded themselves across my soul.

As an adult I think he may have been joking. He payed no especial attention to any indignities fish suffered in our household but I could never forget. I saw fish in a different light after that.

Fish kept in tiny bowls, breathing their own poisons, dying by inches. Fish kept in cold tanks, casually disposed of. Fish touted as being short lived when they could outlive the better loved family dog if only they could breathe. Fish casually won and discarded in cheap plastic bags, thrown away a week later.

How they would scream, if they could.

closet-keys

so many people determine what their ethical responsibility is to someone with less power than they have based on the degree to which their communication is easily understandable or similar. we can see this logic operating on a broad spectrum, and operates not only between humans and other species, but also between populations of people and within interpersonal conflict.

mammals with similar body language and birds with similar vocalizations to the expected neurotypical/vocal/hearing/able-bodied human are given more ethical consideration than fish or invertebrates. and also: colonial powers and the people who uphold them justify their denial of ethical consideration to colonized people based on (among many other things) language and communication styles and able-bodied people justify their denial of ethical consideration to disabled people based on (among many other things) language and communication ability.

this ethical belief applies itself everywhere--when you justify cruelty with a particular reason in one place, you carry that justification with you to apply everywhere else, too. this is why I often stress that we cannot agree with eugenics as an ideology with animals without also inherently applying it to and impacting other human beings. if you believe something about the nature of life, then you believe it, and you will apply this belief in decision making whether you think you will or not. there is no isolating ideologies like this to only one context. you either believe that there are "superior" and "lesser" lives, or you don't.

most people have been raised to accept communication similarity as an identifier of how to determine what level of ethical consideration is warranted when interacting with other life on earth. understanding that we've been raised this way is important so that we can check in with ourselves whether that ethical framework actually makes sense as a moral criteria (it does not) and to spend time actually engaging with questions of how we personally determine ethical consideration. it's important to think through your actual understanding of life and finding a means to make ethical decisions with criteria which isn't inextricably rooted within deeply oppressive social values.

doing so will probably change how you perceive and interact with other people, and with all other living beings, and that is a good thing.

acti-veg

Also just as an aside, fish are not silent. There is a dawn chorus on coral reefs just as there is in the forest, it just falls outside the realms of our perception.

bnprime

do they chirp? do they sing?

provendermalkin

They do!

thewatcher727

Writing Description Notes:

Updated 14th June 2024 More writing tips, review tips & writing description notes

Facial Expressions

Masking Emotions

Smiles/Smirks/Grins

Eye Contact/Eye Movements

Blushing

Voice/Tone

Body Language/Idle Movement

Thoughts/Thinking/Focusing/Distracted

Silence

Memories

Happy/Content/Comforted

Love/Romance

Sadness/Crying/Hurt

Confidence/Determination/Hopeful

Surprised/Shocked

Guilt/Regret

Disgusted/Jealous

Uncertain/Doubtful/Worried

Anger/Rage

Laughter

Confused

Speechless/Tongue Tied

Fear/Terrified

Mental Pain

Physical Pain

Tired/Drowsy/Exhausted

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a list of 100+ buildings to put in your fantasy town

academy

adventurer's guild

alchemist

apiary

apothecary

aquarium

armory

art gallery

bakery

bank

barber

barracks

bathhouse

blacksmith

boathouse

book store

bookbinder

botanical garden

brothel

butcher

carpenter

cartographer

casino

castle

cobbler

coffee shop

council chamber

court house

crypt for the noble family

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@nathanwpyle

I literally love this.

I couldn't stop laughing for 20 minutes.

No joke.

meg-moira

This has the same energy as a writer desperately trying to make their insanely cool but devastatingly off the wall plot point work with the rest of the story

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