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@shuuji-nemo
Date guys who are taller than you. Date protective guys. Date guys with a giant army of orcs and an unquenchable desire for the one ring. Date Sauron.
don’t date sauron.
#aim higher #date melkor
wow Silmarillion fandom it’s great to see you
yeah, we don’t appear much
Mostly in the appendices
fingon’s war braids studded with bells inspired by this tweet
@ariagreenleaf
if you’re ever in the position to choose between giving up and accepting defeat, and actually trying to fight the ancient unkillable god that is about to peel apart reality like a string cheese, remember this: scientifically speaking, you might as well give it a shot!
1.there were trees at the beginning of the world! there were trees so long ago that they predate bacteria that causes wood to decay. when a tree fell, it would lie there in stasis and there wasn’t any way of breaking down wood xylem on a molecular level in that way.
2. it seems obvious to say, but wood eating bacteria are literally incapable of comprehending what they’re breaking down. It’s just not information conciously available to a microorganism. they don’t know what they’re deconstructing, where it came from, bacteria have no way to even fathom the existence of a tree as a concept.
3. Regardless of the facts above, the world we live in today is a world where wood inevitably decomposes
it is worth fighting the unkillable god no matter how pointless it seems. it is worth taking the risk even though youre trying to accomplish something impossible. the reality in which you live was also once reality in which trees didn’t rot. You live in a reality that allows for existence before the possibility of destruction. you live in a reality where uncomprehending microbes break down matter that is so far beyond the scope of their comprehension that it feels comical to specify something so obvious. you live in a reality that occasionally allows unshakeable physical truths to be altered with no warning.
It is worth fighting the unkillable god because trees are so old they predate the source of their destruction, and it still did not spare them. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because bacteria rots unthinkingly, because there is room in our cosmos for destruction without comprehension on the part of the destroyer. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because now and then reality retracts the promise of immortality without fanfare, and when that happens there is no mercy for the ancient. the unmaking is not softer for the desecrators ignorance. for all things, existence is endless until the exact point where it ends.
so you might as well try to kill the unkillable god. it doesn’t seem likely, but at the beginning of the world, trees didn’t rot. so you never know! you never know
fight the unkillable god, because you may be mistaken about its unkillability.
fight the unkillable god, because you may be the first bacterium to take a successful bite.
fight the unkillable god, so as to set foot onto the path which leads to the god being killable.
the bacteria that couldn't eat the tree and the bacteria that could eat the tree had the same general understanding of the tree.
might as well take a bite.
Hello, I have one of the funniest problems ever : I'd like to draw Curufin from your thread verse (that I adore btw) buuut I can't remember for the love of me on which side of the head he was struck and so on which side I should draw white hair (I searched that specific passage in half of the works from the thread verse for almost an hour) would you enlighten me please °‿‿°
You know, I'd never actually thought about which side of the head it was! But instinctively when I imagine him in my head just now it's his right hand side.
If you do draw him and share it on here, please please tag me in it!! I am still entirely in awe and undone by people making art from the thing I made, it amazes me every single time
Isn't Sauron right-handed though? At least he is in the movie I think? So if Curufin was thrown onto his back with the first strike, his left side would make more sense I guess?
@shuuji-nemo yes I think you are right about Sauron being right handed! The way I'd imagined it in my head was Curufin getting hit when he's on his side, not his back- the first strike from Sauron effectively ragdolls him through the air and he lands in a complete heap on the ground, and then the second strike that deals the head wound comes in as he's trying to push himself up. Trying to get up from your back is harder than rolling onto your side and then pushing up like that (at least for me!) so Curufin is rolling over onto his left side- to free his sword arm quicker- and therefore its the right side of his head that is facing 'up' and that Sauron hits with his mace, if that makes sense!
@theheirofashandfire my bad, that makes more sense indeed! Everyone is just sliding around in the mud for that part so I was kind of imagining a slope, even though that would then be a terrible place for a duel *facepalms*
...although I'm sorry for getting so invested in this hypothetical when @deeep-in-silm just wants a goddamn straightforward answer to get that drawing done, but! I raise you: if Sauron is right-handed, and Curufin is on his left side, and presumably he's not completely facing the ground because he's trying to defend himself and so likely trying to keep his opponent in his field of vision (to which you raise the extremely valid point that he's disoriented and so does not, in fact, really have a field of vision to speak of, and could conceivably be facing the ground whether or not he realizes it), then wouldn't Sauron's mace hit him square in the face??
Anyway I'll let myself out now don't mind me XD
Hello, I have one of the funniest problems ever : I'd like to draw Curufin from your thread verse (that I adore btw) buuut I can't remember for the love of me on which side of the head he was struck and so on which side I should draw white hair (I searched that specific passage in half of the works from the thread verse for almost an hour) would you enlighten me please °‿‿°
You know, I'd never actually thought about which side of the head it was! But instinctively when I imagine him in my head just now it's his right hand side.
If you do draw him and share it on here, please please tag me in it!! I am still entirely in awe and undone by people making art from the thing I made, it amazes me every single time
Isn't Sauron right-handed though? At least he is in the movie I think? So if Curufin was thrown onto his back with the first strike, his left side would make more sense I guess?
[transcript: Cameron Klein, seated: I’m not going to launch those ships. Captain’s orders. Brock Rumlow, draws firearm: Move away from your station. Klein closes his eyes. Sharon Carter crosses the room, her weapon raised to aim at Rumlow: Like he said… Captain’s orders. Uniformed security teams (presumably Hydra) and jacket-and-button-up office workers all draw weapons in a stand-off. Rumlow: You picked the wrong side, Agent [Carter]. Carter: Depends on where you’re standing.
/end transcript]
I want to share this analysis of this scene from cakeisnotpie
Because we are seeing that right now with the world situation and the fight against the Orange Fucker and Muskrat. All kinds of people gumming up the works, including people within the government itself, saying “no, I’m not doing that.” and many of them will be fired or removed. But people are digging in their heels for the small moment of mercy it will grant us.
May everyone with the power to resist find the will and courage to do so. Be like Cameron.
Oh.
OH.
I’m crying @comicgeekscomicgeek because I needed to hear this right now. To see my own words, to know that someone read the thought I shouted into the void and remembered. Thank you for being my Sharon Carter and reminding me that I do have a choice.. there’s always a choice.
So, Cap’s orders, I’m not taking my pronouns out of my email signature or pulling Nimona from my class. I can’t change anything, but I can plant myself like a tree, let my students take shelter behind me, and say, “no, you move.”
BLACK SAILS ( 2014 - 2017 )
4.03 "XXXI" // 3.09 "XXVII" // 3.05 "XXIII" // 3.08 "XXVI"
looks like october is…. octover
i’m queueing this for next year
Its nowvember
September is cool and all, but who’s ready for OCTOBER THIRST?
Happy October Thirst!
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post
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sam’s reveal at the end makes this a thousand times funnier
Ok so like, i just went off on a whole rant in defense of celegorm as a character talking about how his whole off page fall from the kind of person a 'Good' god would favor to the point of giving him one of his own hounds and taking him on as a PERSONAL STUDENT and Servant/follower/acolyte, making him his favorite among all his other followers, to the kind of dude who's trying to take and force a woman against her will and hold her prisoner and starting coups against people who have been (at least somewhat) helping him-
And that made me think about how in canon/narratively, you could argue that for all he's done by then, the actual moment Celegorm truly abandons and is abandoned by Orome is when Huan turns from him and leaves.
And then I thought about Ryn, and her being sent freely, able to make her own choices about when to speak and to stay, and how, in the greater themes of thread, you can read that- 'you don't get to stop caring bc it's hard' from Amras yes, but also like
The promise of there always being a way back from the brink if you're willing to do the hard work on facing and fixing yourself, and that for all you've done, you are not abandoned. You are not alone- the promise that someone is going to be with you on the road and waiting for you at the end. The extended hand and glimmer of hope that all of that painful work is going to be *worth it* - the same thing i mentioned before, about 'no fate is so immovable we cannot change it'
And then I cried bc Ryn is a Very very good girl and the best doggo who deserves everything and the world to boot 😭❤🥲
RYN IS THE BESTEST GIRL AND A GOOD DOGGO.
The promise of there always being a way back from the brink if you're willing to do the hard work on facing and fixing yourself, and that for all you've done, you are not abandoned. You are not alone- the promise that someone is going to be with you on the road and waiting for you at the end. The extended hand and glimmer of hope that all of that painful work is going to be worth it
How do you always manage to condense down all my nebulous thoughts and word vomit into something so concise and on point and worded so beautifully?????? Fucking hell I read that first line there and something in my brain sat up and went YES, YES I DID NOT SEE THIS UNTIL NOW BUT YES THIS IS TRUE. THIS IS FUNDAMENTAL.
I think a lot of the thinking and planning of thread happened around the time that the debate about redemption arcs was at (one of) its peaks on this hellsite, and that was one of the reasons that I am so so dedicated to there being nuance and layers to every person's decisions and actions in the thread verse. There are a couple things that I very much hold to be true, both in the thread verse and in life (this is not an exclusive list, but the ones that are relevant here):
Every single person has the capacity within them for terrific love and terrific violence, and those two things are not mutually exclusive.
People do better, can do more, when they are surrounded by people that love them.
You can see how these underpin the redemption arc for Celegorm (and Curufin and everyone else, other than Maeglin because he never did anything wrong ever in his life and I love him). At first, I looked at Celegorm and went 'dick'. And then I started writing him, and I wrote him off the bat as someone who is fucked but still loves his brothers so damn much, and then I started peeling back the layers and going why, and fucking hell it went deep. What makes the most religious of all of Feanor's sons turn his back like he did? What makes him kidnap someone, what makes him try to wrest power in Nargothrond and kill Beren, what makes Huan leave him?
The answer 'because he's evil/cruel/bad isn't really ever good enough for me, and it definitely wasn't with Celegorm because of just how far he'd fallen and from where. I've picked it all apart before in other asks, what the perceived abandonment by Orome did to him, what it did to him when it happened again, what it meant to him when Beren asked Finrod for help retrieving the Silmaril, etc etc etc. And importantly, none of this excuses what he did, but it does offer reasons, and that's so so important both in terms of building a compelling character that people connect with, but also in a broader term for understanding why people do terrible, awful things and therefore how to try and stop it happening again.
Anyway, this started off with redemption arcs. For me, and where I think a lot of people get angry potentially unnecessarily, each redemption arc has two separate parts. The person who committed the wrongs, and the person/people who were wronged. And, importantly, those two can be entirely separate. The people who were wronged do not have to forgive and forget for the person who committed the wrongs to redeem themselves, and the person who committed the wrongs doesn't have to follow a redemption arc for the people wronged to forgive and forget. They can intersect, to whatever degree you would like, but they don't have to.
Lúthien and Beren are never going to forgive Celegorm and Curufin. That's fine. Celegorm's redemption isn't about them, it's about him. They have their own arc and their own story.
So yes. To bring it back to the beginning, the idea that you can bring yourself back from the brink with enough effort, and with people around you who love you, is fundamental to thread. Utterly fundamental. And, importantly, still possible to fail in.
We're gonna see that one soon.
Now now these two last lines were entirely unnecessary.
Something that tickles me, is a story Anna Louise Plowman told on the Fathoms Deep podcast. Anna is married to Toby Stephens and plays Mrs Hudson on Black sails.
Ok so Anna was invited to a dinner party where Prince Charles would be in attendance (I think this is the sort of life you live when your mother in law is Dame Maggie Smith). And over dinner Charles was like "Anna where's Toby tonight?"
And she explained he was still in South Africa filming the fourth season of Black Sails. Charles hadn't watched it and was interested. He apparently wasn't versed on streaming services so Anna offered to have a DVD of the latest season sent to him.
It was only later that Anna realised what the cover art of Season 3 was
She had sent the next king of England a DVD where the cover had a photo of her husband setting fire to the union jack
OK NO WAIT WHAT I JUST FOUND OUT TOBY STEPHENS IS MAGGIE SMITH'S SON WTF?!??!!
Rumple: Don't worry, I have a few knives up my sleeve.
Belle: I think you mean cards.
Rumple, pulling knives out of his sleeves: No, I do not.
