YuuNoHu

Aucklander living in Wellington, dreaming of Japan, destined for the trashpile

[sentientsky]

repeating this to myself forever and ever

[blignick]

[veryimportantgifs]

[the-conquest-of-shred]

this joke makes me so mad because I 100% bet you we already have

[the-conquest-of-shred]

oi mate what's ya fuckin gendies

[spiribia]

once you hit adulthood a day will come when you’re suddenly like VEGETABLES 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 and it never goes away

[arkodian]

This is part of my ongoing Discworld jacket embroidery project. Of course Great A'Tuin has to be on there. And of course it has to be the biggest one of them all.

I'm going to put the finished product in my masterpost, but I'm so proud of the thing that I have to put it in an extra post beforehand. Enjoy!

[arkodian]

Update!!!

Behold: the elephants! 😁

[arkodian]

The turtle moves! Now it's just the "cargo" left. And the universe. Well.

[arkodian]

Update 3: Why did I have to try single thread for the disc. Why. How did I ever think that was a good idea. This is taking aaaages.

I'd say never again, but I know myself too well...

Still trying to decide whether to outline the landmass with darker thread or not. It would make the lands more distinct - but it might also make it look more like a comic. If you have any thoughts on it, let me know. I'll only decide once I've finished the rest of the disc and that'll be at least a week, if I had to guess.

[arkodian]

I finally had some time to continue and the disc is done! Now just some stars, planets, etc...

[arkodianart]

My estimate is that this took about 150 hours. About half of that went into the disc because I discovered single thread embroidery.

And because I always think it's really interesting to see the back of the embroidery - bonus:

On to the next one! Maybe I'll do the luggage now.

[petermorwood]

Wow..!

[labelleizzy]

Fuckin HELL, bud. You're an embroidery 🪡 HERO. SPECTACULAR!!!

[girlnephew]

[moist-von-lipwig]

the realest Discworld reading order is simply 'whatever the hell the local library has available, in whatever order it becomes available'

[kyokyeo]

He was a killer He did fishing What more can I say?

[overthinkinglotr]

I think the reason so many LOTR ripoffs fail is because they make their Aragorn analogue the main character, when the entire point of Aragorn is that he’s “the person the villains think is the main character, but is Not.”

Aragorn seems like a traditional King Arthur style hero— he has huge Main Character Energy because he’s supported by destiny, by bloodline, by all these magic artifacts and prophecies, and etc etc. Frodo and Sam are Just Some Guys. Aragorn recognizes that Sauron understandably thinks he’s the main hero of this story ….and he pretends to believe it too, spending the entire series using himself as a diversion to prevent Sauron from seeing Frodo and Sam.

Aragorn’s whole thing is that knows he seems like the Main Hero of this legend to people who don’t know better —- but he also knows that he isn’t, and that his role is just to keep Sauron’s eye on him in order to protect the people around him.

And it works! Sauron is so fixated on defeating his Legendary Destined Archenemy with Extreme Main Character Energy that he completely overlooks the two ordinary little guys who were the real threat to him all along.

[all-chickens-are-trans]

@tiny-steve sksjslslsk you are SO right

[smitethestate]

Remember kids

[pussyfootmaneuver]

this year may you have

[pratchettquotes]

People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.

As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.

Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

[fairuzfan]

The ease in which Palestinian men are dehumanized. People saw those lineups of halfnaked men and there was relatively no international uproar. Is sexual violence against our men permissible for some reason as long as you write them off as "terrorists"? Humiliation is part of the colonizers' playbook after all. But this is a complex issue of two politically equal entities so don't worry about it.

That last line was sarcasm.

[azhdakha]

The issue of men's disposability as it is.

Source: IMEU

[peri]

does anyone else feel like talking verbally is a quicktime event and you’re constantly missing the button cues

[prokopetz]

Okay, so.

In the film adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring, Frodo gets stabbed by a troll’s spear, and there’s this big dramatic scene where he reveals that he’s been wearing Bilbo’s old mithril corslet under his shirt the whole time.

In the book, Frodo doesn’t tell anyone about the mithril corslet until much later, as the Fellowship is busy running for their lives at the time, and the orcs aren’t kind enough to pause their assault for long enough for the Fellowship to have a mid-battle bonding moment:

Aragorn picked up Frodo where he lay by the wall and made for the stair, pushing Merry and Pippin in front of him. The others followed; but Gimli had to be dragged away by Legolas: in spite of the peril he lingered by Balin’s tomb with his head bowed. Boromir hauled the eastern door to, grinding upon its hinges: it had great iron rings on either side, but could not be fastened.

“I am all right,” gasped Frodo. “I can walk. Put me down!”

Aragorn nearly dropped him in amazement. “I thought you were dead!” he cried.

“Not yet!” said Gandalf. “But there is no time to wonder.”

Meaning that in the book version, for most of the span between the battle at Balin’s tomb and reaching Lothlórien, apart from Gandalf – who obviously figures it out straight away – the Fellowship have no idea how Frodo survived a troll-spear to the guts with nothing but bruised ribs to show for it. What did they think was going on?

[chillgamesh-the-swing]

#[boromir voice] i guess hobbits are just Built Different - @everyones-beau

[prokopetz]

You think you’re joking, but after the stabbing incident and before the mithril corslet is revealed, this exchange happens:

“Well,” said Aragorn, “I can only say that hobbits are made of a stuff so tough that I have never met the like of it. Had I known, I would have spoken softer in the Inn at Bree! That spear-thrust would have skewered a wild boar!”

“Well, it did not skewer me, I am glad to say,” said Frodo.

So, I mean.

[appendingfic]

“Are hobbits indestructible?” asks Aragorn. “Sure, why not,” Frodo replies.

[lokaror]

Divorced my gnome wife... she got all my red hats, pipes and blue shirts... im fucking ruined. ..