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i’m such a weak bitch for the fantasy of “This Protagonist Is So Nice And Empathetic That It Saves The Fucking World” that shit’s so metal, kindness in media is punk as hell

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CHEVALIER (2022)

THE GREEN KNIGHT (2021)

THE MUSKETEERS (2014 - 2016)

FRANKENSTEIN (2025)

BRIDGERTON (2020 - )

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (1993)

WUTHERING HEIGHTS (2011)

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James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, has just died and I am seeing a woeful lack of crab raves on my dash.

milanesa42

Rickrolling you via pigeon next summer

wheeloffortune-design

okay,, more lord of the rings overthinking.

Hobbits.

Don't wear shoes.

So they can't remove their shoes when they enter someone's home.

But hobbits aren't the type to track dirt and mud inside. (That's more the dwarven way, would add Bilbo.)

So, logically, there must be something in the entrance to let them clean their feet.

Something more than a welcome mat. I thought of a dry brush, but I think at some point we need water and a towel.

So imagine that in every hobbit home, on a small table next to the entrance, there's a flowery and overly ornate bucket of fresh water with a nice towel, for guests. And every hobbit is used to just wash their feet clean upon entering a smial, like we all got used to wash our hands when coming back home.

Ok, so let's put that in context:

- The night the dwarves arrive at Bilbo's home, one of them (or all of them) tries to be polite and washes their hands or their face in the foot water.

- During the quest, the first thing Bilbo does when he arrives at a source of water is wash his feet.

- If Bilbo lives in Erebor, he will place a pretty bucket and towel in every room he considers "inside". His rooms, the royal rooms.

- The servants change the water and towels every day, and they have no idea why. There's a conspiracy theory about it.

- If Thorin shares Bilbo's room, he will trip on that damn bucket every single night.

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it's been four years since i first posted this and it still sometimes keeps me up at night.

i need to add some things to the list: (and in my world Bilbo is consort to a very alive Thorin, so he has a lof of influence over the new dwarves of Erebor).

- in a world where Bilbo stays at Erebor, his rooms are declared a no-shoes zone, so he makes every one take them off at the door.

- his rooms are the whole royal chambers, which includes his and the king's personal parlours, dinner table, and living room.

- It often gets visitors to these rooms, like his friends, and more official visits, like Bard of Dale. The first time was a surprise but now Bard has a couple of nice socks for that specific diplomatic visit.

- The dwarves learned to comply, and are allowed socks, but no one has ever paid much attention to what other people's feet look like or if the socks are clean.

- pretty socks become a trend. nice manucures. surprise toe rings. the dwarves go 100000% in on this new hobbit culture thing.

- and since being a royal is having influence, the whole mountain runs with it. fashion and the notion of beauty has shifted south. there are poems about a beloved's feet (Beautiful in their sturdiness, adorned with jewels, she looks like she walks barefoot on gold--)

- and then the kinks. of course.

- and then, ironically, more shoe fashion. Now they know there can be beauty in feet and dwarves are artists, so they go kinda crazy.

- Bilbo is very perplexed that they started with accepting an element of hobbit-culture, and ended up making more shoes.

- Thorin prefers to walk in his chambers on bare feets. He still constantly hurts his little toe on those damn water buckets.

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that-one-tired-tiefling

Today I got to do a meme as a part of DnD session.

My player's character was traveling with her love through a forest and the player asked for a social encounter. I gave her one, she was happy. But then asked for another one during the next day of travel, particularly one where the person(s) met would have a strong opinion on dragons as she was in her dragon-creature shape and wanted to be mistaken as one. So I gave her one.

She first heard bagpipes in the distance. Upon getting closer, she realized there were a few people playing bagpipes. I told her the sound comes out of the nearby meadow. She went there. 3 dragonborns playing bagpipes. She makes a noise. They stop and look at her. She starts making creature noises to mislead them, so they started replicating the sound with bagpipes. This goes on for a minute or so. Finally she starts laughing and says they can play well. They are surprised but thank her. She asks why they are playing in here. They said they are practising because they want to travel as a band and need it to sound good. 'What is the name of the band?' she asks. I grin. IMAGINE HUMANS.

It does matter. It matters exactly like this.

Last month I was in the ER, the most vulnerable emotionally that I've ever been while putting myself in the hands of a stranger. That the intake doctor had a lanyard heavy with Pride pins mattered. It's such a tiny gesture, but the amount of safety I felt because of it, during an agonizing moment in my life, was huge.

thewitchoftheweed

We live in the dumbest, lamest cyberpunk dystopia possible.

So LA has been — and continues to — protest against ICE. These protests haven’t gotten any smaller or lost any momentum, but social media wasn’t reflecting it.

TikTok users, realizing that the platform/other social media are censoring/deleting/shadowbanning these protest videos, decided to find a workaround.

They’re calling it the LA Music Festival. Ice detention centers and other protest locations are “stages.” The hottest band is Rage Against the Machine. “Here’s what gear you should be bringing to stay safe at the LA Music Festival.”

And it fucking worked.

TikTok has become a proving ground for a lot of new music, meaning lots of labels and organizations have lucrative deals with TikTok to promote their new artists and music festivals. So they absolutely cannot censor the words “music festival” or train the algorithm to ignore it, or they risk endangering that very important revenue.

So now protest videos are flooding feeds again, but it’s the LA 24/7 Music Festival. Truly an incredible timeline we’ve landed in.

charonsferry

During the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s, radio broadcasts would refer to upcoming marches as "parties" and use other such euphemisms to sneak calls to organize past censors.

This is, frankly, a timeless strategy, just done online.

wilwheaton

““The fabric of this city is made of immigrants. Football does not exist without immigrants. This club does not exist without immigrants.””

— This is Immigrant City

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evan buckley + ADHD

assignedmale

Goodbye, Lynn. Thank you for your constant support and encouragement since the day I started these comics. It has meant the world to me, and I wish I could have told you. We will remember you forever.