[rockosaur-art]

I like this guy the Baggins

[grouper]

I love Gollum

[marticular]

[graveyard-cowboy]

(The Mansion - The Microphones)

Elli my girl <3 The Mansion literally fits so so well with Iron Lung/The Eel

[willgrahamscock]

I have to make mistakes in order to learn & grow

[rockosaur-art]

Smeegs

[rockosaur]

I love when people tell me their attention span is too bad to read a book

Baby I’ve got 100 links to audiobooks calling your name rn

[rockosaur]

Did you ever want an edit of Home Alone to Bring Me to Life

[grouper]

@dilfsisko

This is the interesting part: Smeagol found the One Ring circa T.A.2463. Contrast that with T.A.2968, which is when Frodo was born.

The Shire = idealized mid-1800s England.

Smeagol, living 500 years prior, is placed in the 14th century. He's living in a small village with a fishing-based infrastructure, out by the Gladden Fields.

Smeagol's village couldn't support him. He was a weak link. He stole things and acted crazy, so they exiled him- read: attempted to execute him through exposure to the elements. He was intended to die alone in the wilderness, to preserve the peace of his small and vulnerable community.

The Shire is the society that grew out of the different hobbit clans which are seen to have practiced this mode of culling-by-exile. And they ended up with a seemingly Idyllic "perfect" all-hobbit society, segregated from the world. But the idea of an ideal society is antithetical to the thesis of Lord of the Rings- as is proved in its conclusion.

In The Scouring of the Shire, we come to understand that the Shire is as corrupt as all other societies; certain Hobbits are shills, and willingly work for Saruman to preserve his tyrannical order. Hobbits willingly imprison their own, and allow others to die in order to avoid their own deaths.

There's a final point here that would bring all of this together, about how civilization domesticates and wilderness makes anyone feral. There's a note about the fear of death being the hand of evil, and that choice is what separates the "good" from the "bad". And that Frodo was always surrounded by people who cared about him, up until the end; and Smeagol had nobody, until Frodo was there for him, at which point he began to reform.

[wikiipediabf]

actually pretty refreshing to see a superhero movie that's not afraid to take sides. none of that "we're all great people we're just misunderstood" bullshit AND clark explicitly saying "hey just because their nation isn't perfect to you or an ally to our country doesn't mean it deserves to be invaded and also, it's people don't deserve to die" was actually pretty fucking cool. the main villain wasn't some poor guy who was wronged as a child but a greedy evil billionaire that was taking advantage of a system that was already so ready to kill. personally, my favourite part was when hawgirl straight up just dropped netanyahu mid flight and immediately went back to serving cunt

[henshengs]

Tbh I think fandom generally needs to get better at sitting with the uncomfortable fact that a story/fanwork/meme/whatever can hurt one person and help another

[sensicalabsurdities]

This is why I think “tag warning” culture is kinder and more constructive than cancel culture / “no problematic content” culture. One size does not fit all, but if we learn to be more aware of the fact that the same thing can be emotionally validating or cathartic to one person and upsetting to another, and pick up a general mindset of thinking before we post, “what might people need a heads up for in this content?”, we grow more compassionate, more thoughtful, and more understanding of the differences in people’s experiences.

[cozysafechaotic]

[rockosaur]

He’s endearing when not trying to murder you I think

[rockosaur]

The struggle of trying to draw gollum when I usually draw people with 100 pounds of hair

[sewersoul]

[rockosaur-art]

I’m a ginger Bilbo truther till I die

[rockosaur-art]

[grouper]

American spotted skunk boy