Sleepwalking

lagging behind

[sokkuchan]

you look lonely

I just like the colors—

and I streamed the process of this drawing today, and I loved it so much!

[group-dynamic]

*SCREECHING*

I was watching this lovely, bittersweet edit highlighting the short, tragic friendship between Celebrimbor and Elrond as they're portrayed in the Rings of Power, and it got me reflecting (as many of us have) on the prophesy, "My father foresaw that one day Celebrimbor's life would be in my hands" and how it's too bad there wasn't anything that felt like a weighty resolution to that thread. Like, to have a prophesy directly from the foresight of Eärendil that's first mentioned in season one and invented for the show feels so significant to be used merely as a device to compound Elrond's failure, you know? The prophesy works well as foreshadowing and elevates the tragic impact of Elrond's role as commander and his inability to defend Eregion, but that feels so distant to the idiom "life in his hands." Especially since Elrond isn't even in sight of Celebrimbor's death, so how could his life really be so directly in his hands--

IT'S THE RING.

THE RINGS.

Elrond's only direct acts related to "saving" Celebrimbor on screen is trying to save his records and his city, aka the lore and legacy around him. And that fails. The records are burned, the city is reduced to rubble, the smith's greatest achievements are corrupted and certainly going to be twisted further to some evil purpose in Sauron's hands.

And Elrond's been so certain that those rings are corrupted, including the elven rings (which for a while are the only rings the Lindon elves know of in the show). But then suddenly those elven rings are all that's left of Celebrimbor's legacy and in the first and last episode of the season they're LITERALLY in Elrond's hands. When he jumps from the cliff trying to keep them from his friends, and when he finally picks one up and uses it for good--for its intended, healing purpose. I mean, Elrond future lore master has Celebrimbro's life story in his hands. He has Celebrimbor's life's work in his hands, and all the parts of himself and his craft he poured into those rings.

And one day Elrond will literally be one of the bearers and wielders of Celebrimbor's life work and legacy. Yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaahhh==

"His life in his hands" indeed.

[passivelylevolent]

I love the idea that by Noldor standards, all of the royalty/leadership of the Second Age are completely feral.

I’m thinking scandalously unconcerned with all the little details of court politics. Like during High King Finwë’s reign, dressing/accessorizing incorrectly would be the most embarrassing thing ever or a devastating insult. A third of Fingolfin and Fëanor’s arguments were carried out via hair and jewelry. Fëanor underdressing to that one party was SHOCKING stuff.

Cut to High King Gil-galad, furiously trying to scrape together the free people of Middle Earth into something resembling a functioning government and not a post-apocalyptic hellscape. Hair fully down and not a bit of jewelry besides the crown, if that (gets in the way of helmet). Every elf born in Tirion is clutching their pearls. Lord Elrond can and has shown up to council meetings in his PJs. Not only has Celebrimbor cut his hair to his shoulders, he doesn’t even bother with a circlet anymore. Curufin is rolling in his grave.

[thesummerestsolstice]

I love the idea that Annatar came to Middle-Earth, fully ready to manipulate mansplain malewife his way through the remaining Finweans. Because there's nothing Finweans like more than familly infighting, and he was going to take full advantage of that! He was going to divide and conquer, turn them against each other, and then feast on their power and admiration. He had a plan. It was a good plan!

And then he gets to Middle Earth and realizes that isn’t going to happen. Because like, look at his options. Galadriel?? Not even a chance. She’ll eat him for dinner and then complain he’s under seasoned. Gil-Galad?? Well that seemed like a great option until Elrond came out and starting whispering in his ear! (Seriously, getting beat as an evil, queer-coded advisor by a half-elf?? How humiliating!) Celebrimbor?? There are no thoughts in that man’s brain except for forging. No political ambitions. No exploitable character flaws. Just the simple, pure desire to make metal do cool things.

How’s he supposed to work with this??? God Morgoth had it so easy, the First Age Finweans were practically jumping at the opportunity to fight each other. But Annatar has to deal with this "family unity and friendship" bullshit. Ughhhh fine, he’ll manipulate Celebrimbor and make a new plan, whatever. He just needs like. An evil Advil and a nap first.

[physicsandfandoms]

Hello Tumblr, Wētā posted what seem to be new BTS photos from the FotR Last Alliance scenes on Facebook and I am not seeing these in Elrond and Gil-galad's tags here yet so I am bringing them to you!

[tastefullyoffensive]

30 Funniest Cat Tweets For People Who Have Accepted That The Cat Runs The House

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

[columboscreens]

[princelapine-deactivated2025031]

[alyrch99]

my wife is right

[neverfadinglands]

Also he does not wear any other clothes, just this one coat, even in summer in hot climate. I think there was an episode in Mexico and he still wore his coat in that heat. What is he hidding under?

[lieutenant-columbro]

can he sit on your dash for a minute?? he'll be very polite :]

[falewife-deactivated20230630]

you have to start to scroll away and then come back and reblog this

[the-cheese-man]

"hey there. I hope you don't mind me sitting on your dash for a little bit, ya see I'm trying to go up in the Internet and- I'm no good with technology you see thats more my wife's thing, what whid all the rebloggin' and Ay Oh Three, but she tells me that people scroll through "tumbler"- now how they do that I've no clue I can hardly figure out my own dryer- and that if I hitched a ride on one of these posts, people could scroll me upwards for free. No hassle, no fair no nuthin. Anywho, ide better be going, and uh. Have fun tumbling."

[parakeet]

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

[parakeet]

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

[parakeet]

so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...

so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts

posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig

[badenlily]

A traitor prince and a forsaken hero.

Characters I have been rotating around in my head for fun lately 👁️👁️

[robin-therobber]

the littlest things in the world

[soymoss]

emo heron in boots

[viralfrog]

[rae-xoxo00]

omg the girlies

[astra-the-dragon]

omg the girls are saviiiiiiiing wiiiildliiiiife

[highlyillogicalandroid]

Not all heroes wear capes. Or trousers.

[poppy-tarts-stuff]

Not leaving this in the tags

[asukam]

I saw this on insta and someone commented asking her how she knew they were in there and she said that she saw the mama duck with only one duckling and thought it was suspicious so she stopped to check and hear them quacking down there... :') <3

[uncomfortablecliche]

the way the momma duck sped up once she saw her babies yayyyy

[manofbeskar]

shanks vs shamrock

[byjove]

It would be kind of fun to have a medical dramamedy show where people (patients and people in the medical field) could submit their craziest experiences with the medical system and those plotlines and patient stories could be dramatized and woven into a cohesive narrative with any additional profits from the show going to pay off medical debt.

[byjove]

Plotline A: Patient is suffering from a near fatal case of hypothermia after passing out in the snow drunk and laying there all night until his 13 year old nephew discovered him in the morning, said 13 year old managed to transport his druncle to the hospital on a snowmobile but the rest of the family cannot make it there due to road conditions.

Plotline B: A live rat fell through the ceiling halfway through an emergency appendectomy, causing the surgeon to startle and rupture the patient’s appendix. Infectious disease is very interested in the situation due to the risk of zoonotic infection. The hospital’s legal department is also very interested in the situation.

[foxglovedforest]

Hey OP what happened to you

[byjove]

I’ve been chronically ill since the age of 14 and I enjoy eavesdropping

[zillychu]

wait can I submit something

[zillychu]

I could never be so important. I hope I'm cast as a nameless background character who's just always at the hospital whenever something laughably disastrous happens. like the leg guy in SpongeBob

[spoonies-and-knives]

[id/ tags by @/mijimii that read #tumblr user zillychu your plotline can last 3 seasons methinks /end id]

[letthefairyinyoufly]

Robert Aramayo as ELROND ✦ THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER ✦

requested by @queen-rhaenyra-t-targaryen