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grippysockgang-deactivated20230

You all are the coolest people I vaguely know

infizero

bringing back my too woke opinion that you should be allowed to change labels without the previous one being incorrect

infizero

i think you should be allowed to identify as trans without retroactively saying you were also trans in the past. i think the "born this way" rhetoric is limiting and you should be able say stuff like "i was fully a girl when i was a kid and now im a boy" without it invalidating your current identity but maybe that's just me

#there’s an Arlecchino fic I have bookmarked #in it Arle says:#‘I was a girl and then a man’#’now I am both and more’#’perhaps one day that too will change’#‘but when it does I will trust myself’#I had to put my phone down and actually cry bc it was the first time I’d heard that phrased so clearly #and YEAGH #it’s funny (derogatory) how many people in the comments were mad at the author writing Arle being trans wrong #despite this stemming from the author’s experience 🙃#I love it hereeeeeee #but nah anyway it was just. yeah. that.

rrr6867

Caranthir takes up needle felting because it’s the closest he can get to stabbing his brothers

songbird-is-crying

i think peak historical fiction is when there is a random ass major historical figure but as a comedic relief side character. like geoffrey chaucer being a naked gambling addict in a knight’s tale or leonardo da vinci being cinderella’s fairy godmother in ever after. like. nothing can top that.

#ever after mention let’s go!

doctorprofessorsong

As an older queer, allow me to say: the walls of the closet are load-bearing. It is our job as a community to stand in front of that door and tell everyone who wants to peek inside to fuck off.

There are so many reasons a person may choose not to come out and there is no reason a person would owe the public or a stranger that information. Certainly it's not owed simply because someone is famous.

We have fought for decades to make it safer for people to be open and authentic about themselves, but we are not yet there. And even if we were, the closet would still be something we need to maintain for those who are not ready to reveal that part of themselves.

queer-positive-archived

@staff our identities aren’t nsfw and we will not stand for them to be treated as such

hxneyfarm

Happy pride month specifically to folks on the asexual and aromantic spectrum who oftentimes feel isolated and left out of the conversation. You belong here as much as the rest of us and I hope that you are all loved in a way that is comforting to you.

jerreeeeeee

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

jerreeeeeee

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Remaining time: 2 days 17 hours

#brother in arms!

nagarnia

☄️

#headphone warning #but it’s cute dw just loud #a baby!!!!!#zhongli

longseasons

gwydionmisha

Bonus: If I buy a book I get to keep it! The publisher can't turn up at my house at random and confiscate all the books I bought.

#your physical copies also cannot be altered or censored ✌️#unless somebody like breaks into your house and does it #but in reality they are safe from censorship if you already own a copy

having a bird feeder is awesome because I get to see tons of little chickadees and goldfinches swarming around it, but I ALSO get joys like seeing the roundest stellar jay I've ever witnessed (who could not get into the feeder because it's designed with a trip so squirrels and large birds can't use it). Dude was built like a baseball 😭

#if he wasn't so fucking massive and didn't have a crest i'd say bushtit bc they're so round but it was CLEARLY not lmao #the feeder was expensive but like the squirrels absolutely destroyed my old one in the span of two weeks #this one has a really nifty design and a lifetime warranty so #worth it #i do want to get some kind of feeder that squirrels and larger birds can use because i like seeing them #but i don't like them ripping my feeder to shreds with their little grabbers and emptying it out in hours lol

academicssay

academic self-regulation explained

#qiqi lying on floor.png

samcormac

what’s the rush?

#remember that the journey too has meaning ✌️

cash4bees

I think the reason I still enjoy tumblr is that even though this all still pisses me off, I know that anything that makes me mad on here is 100% earnest. It's not ragebait or engagement farming, y'all are actually just that stupid sometimes

wingkink

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

#it's also so fucking stupid that you can have Hidden Anxiety Responses from something which isn't even relevant anymore #and not even in a very serious Trauma way in how we generally think trauma responses look like #i hear someone moving around in the general vicinity and I instinctually tab off game windows or show windows to Look Like I Am Working #< which is a very annoying holdover from my parents and it's so instinctual that it's very hard to catch lmao #I am not in trouble with an adult!!! I AM the adult!!!!!!!!!#I can choose what to do with my time!!!!!!!

nightbringer24

Someone's putting the G.R.R. Martin quote of "Ruling in the Medieval period was hard. Like, what was Aragorn's tax policy?"

And I've finally narrowed in on what bugs me the most about that comment. it misses the most fundamental thing about The Lord of the Rings and Aragorn specifically.

Aragorn is The One True King. He is THE perfect monarch for Gondor and the Numenorean line. He will fix things ("The hands of the king are the hands of the healer"), he will reconnect not just the living but the dead and right old oaths that have been wronged.

Aragorn is the classical example of the king. Not an absolutist monarch, but someone who is meant to be good and do good for all in the kingdom.

Was being a Medieval ruler hard? FUCK YES IT WAS. Undoubtedly. But The Lord of the Rings is NOT that sort of story.

nightbringer24

Also, from Tolkien's own words:

"I never set out to write a treatise on medieval governance or the practical burdens of kingship. My work is a mythology an exploration of moral truth, not political mechanics. Aragorn is not meant to be a bureaucrat but an archetype: the just king of legend, much like Arthur. Myth is concerned with the heart of a ruler, not the tax policies of his court.

The question of governance in the modern sense belongs to another kind of story one that I entirely respect, but did not seek to write. Real history is indeed complicated, but myth speaks to deeper, older truths. Power in my world is already perilous; no one may wield it without cost. Even the wise refuse the Ring, for good intentions alone are never sufficient. In that sense, my work hardly denies the burden of rule it only treats it in a different language.

As for the orcs: they are not a people I delight in destroying. Their existence is a tragedy, a corruption of something that was once good. No just king would slaughter the innocent, for even in the darkest creatures there remains a spark of the original creation. Mercy is not weakness; it is the highest form of strength.

You ask questions proper to politics. I ask questions proper to myth. Both have their place, but they need not answer each other in the same terms."

I can only find the clip from the interview on Twitter so here it is.

catie-does-things

That quote is not Tolkien's own words.

The linked post is the Twitter user's conjecture about how Tolkien would have answered Martin's comments were he alive today, which is why it so specifically addresses all those points.

The video embedded with the Twitter post is an interview where Tolkien talks about some of his inspiration for Lord of the Rings and how he created Middle Earth, but he does not say any of the above in it.

#i'm not necessarily saying GRRM said this but it's something i've heard repeated ad nauseum from fans - to excuse the violence and grimdark #(to be clear i don't necessarily mind grimdark but GoT can get excessive)#- is that 'well but it was like that back then it's just realistic'#and NO it wasn't??? people were still people #esp the young age GRRM tends to have women get married at in his stories #that was not normal like ever lol you can check records and most people were marrying at a reasonable grown age #the people who weren't were nobility and even then they USUALLY were not having sex and babies #(and if they were a lot of times That Guy was considered a Weirdo)#people generally understood that it was unhealthy to have babies that young if nothing else #and EVEN IF IT HAD BEEN NORMAL #why on EARTH does that matter for a fantasy world?#this goes back to the issue of aragorn's tax policy #it simply isn't relevant GRRM #if there was some plot reason for it to be relevant then that's a different matter #but this is a s t o r y #we don't need to be 'realistic' we only need to hold suspension of disbelief #and LOTR is very good at doing that precisely because of the kind of story it is #ugh anyway i'm good i'm fine #GRRM has no leg to stand on criticizing Tolkien until he can actually FINISH his books and I stand by that #i do really like GoT but it's sad to see them sitting there more or less abandoned #I wish he'd take a page out of Brandon Sanderson's literal book and just accept help #Brando Sando has a BILLION people helping him write #he has someone who goes through and just adds spren in scenes were there should be spren #and another person who keeps the timeline of events #that's how he writes that quickly #and it's an immensely good strategy it's always excellent to get help for a project of this magnitude #there's nothing wrong with that #at this point just hire a ghostwriter or two #there are SO MANY fans who have amazing and satisfying ways to conclude the story #and have gotten those ideas by delving deeply into the themes and lore and deep understanding of the characters

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