Retired, ressurected, rebuilding

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Ringwraiths - The Lord of the Rings (1978)

[blueathn]

Beach day

[forgotaboutnoodle]

You know that thing would eat you if you died, right? *pointing to Ianthe Tridentarius*

[faithfulpuppy]

Ianthe would eat you while you were still alive

[professionalnooneatall]

And did so at least once.

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[paper-mario-wiki]

HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?

Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.

[meltedgarment]

I've been looking for such archives, thanks

[fealty-to-thee]

you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress).

i was not going to publish this essay because i don’t like to yell but here the fuck i am.

the first link broke, here you go

[createacamillahect]

You told us you were only getting cigarettes. Why are you acting like nothing happened? The kids (nona 'n noodle) have been a WRECK since you left. And here you act like nothing happened...

🤣🤣🤣

It was just cigarettes. Just like a fuck ton of cigarettes.

And a redhead

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Paintings by Jason Limon

[professionalnooneatall]

YES

[officialspec]

murder on the dance floor

[cordspaghetti]

remember when gerard did that panel at that school and got asked if they like their sandwich bread with or without the crust and they were like i think you have to endure things sometimes

[major-knighton]

It was cocky and overconfident to call the Titanic "unsinkable" but one thing that's overlooked is that she was genuinely really, unusually solid. She could float even with 4 compartments fully flooded, which even a lot of modern day ships can't do.

And it's not like they were wrong about her being solid! Olympic, her identical sister ship, survived being torpedoed and then running over the U-Boat that fired that torpedo. Those ships were solid.

It's very clear that absolutely no other ship in 1912 would have been able to survive that collision, and it's a testament to the quality of the ship that she didn't sink in a few minutes Empress of Ireland style. Part of what makes the Titanic such a tragic story is that it isn't a group of rich idiots locking themselves in a shoddy iron barrel to go 4km underwater. It was 2200 people, most of whom were poor immigrants, on a reliable ship on a commonly-made journey, and then something went horribly, unpredictably wrong.

[anthraxofeffervescence]

The core conceit of Lord of the Rings is pretty funny. You are a twenty three year old in a suburb of Maine. The little bracelet in your grandpa’s attic has an inscription on it that is the password to the world’s entire nuclear arsenal. It is up to you to walk to the only hydraulic press in the world, located in Arizona, before the FBI finds the bracelet, kills you, and enslaves the suburb of Maine you currently live in

[anthraxofeffervescence]

Also the 90-year old hobo that your grandpa beat in a rap battle for possession of the bracelet while hiding from the Romanian secret police really loved the bracelet because it was coated in small amounts of LSD and tried to hunt and kill your grandpa to get it back. He was then apprehended by the FBI and instantly gave them your grandpa’s address. Seal Team Six is about to break down your door and shoot you, says your local congressman who can also do cool magic tricks

[bloodyraven1001]

There's a guy in NY who MIGHT be capable of destroying the codes but won't coz he simply wants to spend time with his wife. So it's up to your grandpa's old friend in rural Ohio to get you the friends capable of finishing the task.

[ariaste]

And we must not, at any point, remember the existence of aircraft and ask aloud why we can't just fly to Arizona

[crazy-pages]

The aircraft are all under the command of the Australian government, which has declared that the nuclear arsenals are not their problem and that no aircraft will help anyone out with that problem. Your grandfather did fly with the bracelet one time, but he only got away with that because no one involved knew what the bracelet was and it would have been a huge deal if anyone had realized what was up. If you charter a flight towards the world's only hydraulic press, the Australians will know and throw lightning at the plane.

[romehbo]

im sorry but the idea that society "allows" women to express their feelings is ridiculous. which society do yall live in

[romehbo]

are women encouraged to be sad? to grieve? to be angry? to be bitter? to be petty? are they encouraged to be emotional, or are they expected to be emotional and then called irrational hormonal bitches for it?

[quaksi]

I consider it divine retribution that I made @curiouswisp check out the locked tomb and nows she's dragging me back into it (and I wouldn't want it any other way). This Camilla is for you

[musdswo]

cam!

[grynwood]

"I don't let go. It's my one thing"

[processes]

common origins of suffering, euphoria, and ferret

substack

[yarrow-heather-and-hollyhock]

I love this little bit by Cathon