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guy who doesnt realize hes commanding a small army and thinks a lot of people are just going along with his bit
sil-ma-ril! gotta catch em’ all!
idea taken from this tweet
we’re so back
Do Star Wars fans actually like their own franchise
not really
tl;dr: all "algorithmically" pushed stuff on a newsfeed is mostly ads. nothing that's really surprising form this vulture article, but it is dismal and makes me grateful for one website where you only see things from people you follow WITHOUT horrible short-form video content
What if every viral song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama in recent memory was the result of a stealth marketing campaign?
https://web.archive.org/web/20260515113210/https://www.vulture.com/article/social-media-feeds-chaotic-good-projects-clipping.html
Have a paywall free link to the source!
today I learned Howard Shore has a cameo in RotK??
(tags by @mercifulmother)
my LITERAL reaction to learning this information
when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳
THIS IS NOT ABOUT ONE DIRECTION I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS “HARRY” PERSON IS GO WATCH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND CLARENCE CLEMONS KISS ON STAGE RIGHT NOW
op is the only valid person i’ve ever met. everyone else needs to come to the light
Okay, but this is really important: Bruce Springsteen occupied this really weird place in music history. His songs were all from this pessimistic, nihilistic view of an America that had let him down:
Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.
Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.
It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.
Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.
So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.
Passages from American Popular Music by Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman
I used to think that Bruce and Clarence kissing onstage was exuberance, showmanship, and telling racist homophobes to fuck off. Like, they picked up a certain kind of audience and went “Racist homophobes? Not in our house!” And started the kissing then but then I actually looked it up and
https://www.gq.com/story/this-fucked-me-up-bruce-springsteen-singing-about-clarence-clemons
It was a story where… we remade the city. We remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t have been such an exceptional thing. - Bruce Springsteen
It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage
It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own
Clemons said in one interview. “Bruce and I looked at each other and didn’t say anything, we just knew. We knew we were the missing links in each other’s lives. He was what I’d been searching for.” In another version of the story, Clemons says “He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love.”
I’m having some emotions about it!
“He was elemental in my life,“ Springsteen adds, “and losing him was like losing the rain.”
Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!
We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!
God I’m not okay about it
Now I’m mad that this is not among any of the things I was ever told about this artist.
I knew about this in general (& via all those fabulous photos), but this just adds even more beautiful context <3
Just to add to the pile: this was the cover of Springsteen’s break-through album Born to Run, in 1975:
I mean, will you LOOK at this:
This was the pic chosen for the album cover from an extensive photoshoot, too. A few others:
There’s a lot more online if you search. They’re all pretty amazing. But the photographer is right, the one chosen for the album cover just pops.
Imagining Fëanor and Tolkien meeting and Fëanor just straight up not liking him lmao. It starts out well enough, but it soon turns out Tolkien's ideas about language are not actually all that much like those of an elf (insisting on th was about the erasure his mother, after all, and very much political), and it only gets worse when Fëanor finds out Tolkien has no craft, does not cook well (traditional elf man task as per LaCE) and worst of all claims to have written him into being.
Scrambling back and saying all subcreation comes about through god in the end really doesn't help.
on top of that, Tolkien's pipe irritates his sensitive nose.
Story in which Fëanor is actually Tolkien's subcreator in turn.
"In a house in England there lived a Man. Not a nasty, dark, cluttered house, filled with odds and ends and an moldy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, modern home with white walls, grey accents, an industrial touch and nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Oxford home, and that means comfort. ... This Man was a very well-to-do professor, and his name was Tolkien."
To which Tolkien of course strongly objects in turn.
"So young Man," Fëanor says with a frown, "you truly believed this Story was yours? No, I simply imagined a world without the Valar, without Quendi to lead the Aftercomers along, exactly as they would have it; us all sequestered away in Valinor, so unreachable we might as well not exist, forever, with only the darkness to soothe your fears of the night. You were but a theme about mortal longing for more, for hope, of finding escape only in an imagined version of Eldalië through a glass, darkly. You never could survive without us, even if I had not been the one to make you up, imagining me."
New fandom debate; Tolkien yet another invention falsely attributed to Fëanor???
RE: will come back to your Great Man Theory comment as it relates to the historical impact of famous English authors later, but wholly agree his impact on the Story is exagerrated!! There were many mortal writers and why should he have had that much influence! He's barely even in the Story-- he lived for, what? 81 years! That's nothing. It had barely even started.
Besides I just don't think it's realistic to say Tolkien wrote both LoTR and the Silmarillion,
new version of the time loop plot but it's just an endless loop of author and character imagining one another (and never agreeing about who's writing who)
They keep arguing but in reality it's
this entire argument of course takes place in a kitchen, while Fëanor judgementally cooks Tolkien a three course meal.
"Can't even bake a half-decent soufflé yet calls himself an adult man... no craft either. Unbelievable. 😒"
("The cooking and preparing of other food is generally a task and pleasure of men." -Laws and Customs of the Eldar)
row breaks out as Fëanor turns out to prefer the mass in English because however much word sound matters to him (and all Elves)-- it makes no sense to him to say important things in a language its believers don't understand. This is simply not something that happens in any Elvish culture.
On top of that he remains unimpressed by Catholicism, says he wrote the trinity into the story as a joke and metaphor about his Silmarils (three jewels one Light).
Hot take; christianity actually a story about the Silmarillion. It is just never referenced directly because Fëanor considered that in bad taste. As he wrote through his philologist character J.R.R. Tolkien;
"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers."
the implication here that Fëanor in this scenario is both the author of every extremely unnuanced pro- and anti- Fëanor take out there in the fandom.... feels in character tbh.
He had a lot of time to kill in Mandos.
Jesus and the apostles were such a beautiful fictional reference to Frodo and the fellowship, very well done. and I love how he gave the Jesus character some Earendil symbolism too-- but i think Fëanáro Therindion messed up a bit when he tried to squash too many references to real people into one character tbh...still really appreciate the Fingolfin reference wrt the turning the other cheek moment though, shows a lot of personal growth since the sword incident!
Even so.... I think making a group of characters believe Eru took mortal form wasn't funny-- that's just blasphemy. He hasn't changed that much after all, despite those Ages in Mandos.
Some people say the myth of Prometheus is just another self-insert featuring a caricatural portrayal of the Valar as selfish and immoral-- as if Fëanor's plans to leave for Middle Earth with the Silmarils and rule there independently while bringing Light to the dark world were widely known before his release from Mandos. Those plans were abandonned the moment Morgoth started influencing him and he got possessive and paranoid about anyone stealing them anyway. Stealing their Light was never really the issue with the Valar, and it smacks of Y.o.T. era extremism to write deities based on them that way.
A more benign reading of it is I think the one that interprets it as a sort of upside down allusion to his son Maedhros, like some incoherent way to process what happened to his eldest while he was in Mandos...
He's never clarified it though and he's been known for some very problematic/cringy self-inserts before. I heard J. R. R. initially started out as one as well but he got distracted by his little meta joke with the character as the supposed author of the Silm, so...
oh you dislike feanor?? That makes sense.... he wrote you that way when he was processing some negative feelings about himself. :///
RIP to you but he wrote me during his sexy little self-indulgent fantasy stage instead. 😔
sucks you had to be his therapy stage though, he really grew as a writer after.
The Endurance was trapped in Antarctic ice for about a year and finally sank in November 1915:
Famously, Ernest Shackleton used a jury-rigged lifeboat to sail over 700 miles to a whaling station, seek help, return and rescue his entire crew, which imo is a greater feat than reaching the South Pole. The ocean currents circling Antartica are some of the stormiest and coldest in the world. How the heck do you cross that in a small open boat without sinking, starving, or freezing to death?
Anyway, I'm impressed that the Endurance looks to be in pretty good shape considering how much it got crushed by pack ice. And it was just discovered yesterday (March 9)!
In a LIFEBOAT???
Ayup. Not only that, but I hadn't realized until I read Wikipedia: they were adrift on ice floes for six months after Endurance sank. This after they'd already been trapped in or next to the ship since January 1915, surviving the Antarctic winter. They rode the ice north until it broke up in April 1916, then scrambled into the lifeboats and sailed for six days to the nearest island, following the navigational skills of the Endurance's captain Worsley. (Shackleton was the expedition leader and organizer, but not the skipper.)
Once on solid ground, while Worsley recovered from staying awake 80 hours straight steering them through frigid, ferocious waves, they finished upgrading one of the lifeboats with bits of another, which they'd started doing while on the ice:
(more photos and story below; Not quite as noble as the Carpathia, but epic)
the aroace read of ryland grace is so personal and haunting. "you don't even have a dog." was it not enough to love the world for the sake of living in it. was it not enough to live for the thrill of discovery. was it not enough to smile at your students. was it not enough to be afraid.
part 2 of my copper-haired Maedhros au (with even more oxidation thanks to hanging on a cliff for 30 years 😬)
… and some much later aftermath with Curufin and Celebrimbor
ringmakers
don't talk to me or my son ever again
Oh so you’re a real Tolkien fan?
Tell me the duration of an elven pregnancy, the number of Sun Years from the Awakening to Fëanor’s Rebellion, and the name of Gil-galad’s dad
Tolkien is not a real Tolkien fan, then.
the girls are fighting!!!!!!!!!!!!
when horses do the big doggie stretch and go allll the way down…
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