I have 22 potted plants and a feminist agenda

she/her, aro-spec, asexual, atheist

[seymour-butz-stuff]

[sharkangelic]

The Ring: If I had a quarter for every time a hobbit picked me up, I’d have two quarters.  The Ring: Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[markwateneymemorialcrater]

Of all the bearers of Sauron’s ring, 4 of them were hobbits.

[markwateneymemorialcrater]

I was wrong. It’s 5. Not 4

The lineage of ring bearers is as follows.

Sauron.

Isildur

Deagol

Sméagol

Bilbo

Frodo

Samwise

[kaispeakshermind]

I love how Deagol counts as a ring bearer even though he had it in his possession for all of like five seconds

[uberguber89]

He held it for the rest of of his life!

[animanightmate]

[Image description: Tweet by @banalplay saying “but something happened then that the ring did not intend. it was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable: a hobbit, the same fuckin thing that just had it for like 500 years.” End Image Description.] Link to original here. Otherwise reblogging for the final rb there, which made me cackle.

[elidyce]

From the ring’s perspective:

1. Home, the finger of my creator and other self.

2. Well, I don’t like it but I can work with this. Cause some trouble, get some revenge, find my way home, this is fine.

3. What the fuck is you?

4. Right personality, wrong species, I don’t know what you are but I hate you and I don’t know why you’re so resistant to my powers.

5. NO NO NO there are goblins everywhere how did I find another one of THESE horrible things. This one’s even more resistant than the last one and also disgustingly nice. I suffer.

6. Listen, I’ll cooperate, just get me the fuck out of this hellhole full of small cheerful people my power doesn’t work on properly. No, not like that. I hate you. Please stop. 

7. FUCK

8. (Frodo again) I still hate you with every molecule of my mortal form but at least you’re not number seven. Think I’m starting to get through finally. 

9. (Smeagol again) YES it’s you I actually missed you now get me back to the Master and NO FUCK NO I HATE YOOOOUUUUU…. *fzt* 

[kiwivee]

[kelssiel]

you CHAIN The One Ring?! you chain it like the prisoner?! oh! OH! trauma! deep psychological trauma for hobbits for One Thousand Years!

[ding-dong-the-bitch-is-dead]

@blackkatmagic @sparklecryptid @secret-engima

[callmearcturus]

"Consent" Is the Wrong Framework for Experiencing Art

Moral panic about fiction is a misguided outlet for anger about the real world

What separates the people who spend their lives crusading against depictions of homosexuality in art and public life from those who spend theirs railing at independent creators for not perfectly protecting them from anything that might give them a negative emotion? For all that users posit that it’s an artist’s duty to provide trigger warnings as a matter of public safety and responsibility, allowing their audiences “avoid harm,” the very idea that art itself can cause harm either by victimizing someone engaging with it or by “normalizing” antisocial behavior pushes the conversation into reactionary territory. War and rape and interpersonal brutalization have been fixtures of human interaction since before history’s record began; the engines driving them are power, abuse, poverty, and other broad and tangible social forces. Depictions of morality in art offer only a pale reflection of these real-world horrors, and so function for many frustrated and powerless people as a safe arena in which to battle out ideas unrelated to art’s role in society.

Perhaps a movie reminds a viewer of abuse suffered in their childhood. Perhaps that viewer is then triggered, and must leave the theater in a state of severe agitation. Perhaps their day is ruined, their week thrown off, their compulsive behavior thrown into activation. The harm in this situation, the tangible damage to a human life, was done before the viewer ever bought a ticket. It was done between human beings, and no matter how terrible the effects of being brought back to this experience are, responsibility lies with the trauma’s original cause, not with art which coincidentally recalls it.

/standing ovation

This is why I get so angry. The things we warn for, the content that triggers huge groups of people, these are things we can push back against and fight. We can try to reduce abuse and poverty.

But for the people who get up in arms about Problematique Media, its easier to get mad at a piece of art than it is to work on the actual problems, and thus shifts the focus and blame off the problems and onto art that depicts it.

INCREDIBLE read.

[ladystormcrow]

This part especially, when it comes to explaining what drives online purity culture:  “We know instinctively that we can’t oust a president or bring down an oil conglomerate, but we can sure as hell make a tiny video game studio pay for the fact that while playing their game — or listening to someone else talk about having played it — we felt something we didn’t want to feel. If you can’t make the world safe, at least you can punish the people who remind you it isn’t.”

[vicholas]

[cop-disliker69]

Quebec was just completely deleted.

[zennistrad]

Quebec isn’t real.

[wordcubed]

What happened to Greenland?

[apricops]

god I love maps designed to piss off literally everyone

[a-blue-revolution]

They turned Brazil in our most hated enemy: Portugal

[whitepeopletwitter]

[dejasquietplace]

an expert analysis of my five day old chicks

[dejasquietplace]

an expert analysis of my four week old chicks

[dejasquietplace]

by popular demand: an expert analysis of my seventeen week old chickens (soon to be laying eggs)

[dejasquietplace]

i’ve told them everyone loves them but i’m afraid they don’t speak english

[iselsis]

Writing Tip for Asexual Writers

You’re writing an allo character. You freeze. They should express attraction at this point. But…how??? *cringes* sexual attraction is just? How? Why?

I have come up with a workaround: when describing a character finding another character hot, I just channel my (non-sexual) attraction to bookshelves. Broad, tall, sturdy, dark, chiseled features…I’m gonna swoon, but I’m actually describing my ideal bookshelf. I can also do it with coats: warm, soft, well shaped, comforting. 

So, find your thing, your random thing that you find aesthetically pleasing, and then imagine that you’re describing that instead of shoulders or legs or eyes. It works!

[fashionsfromhistory]

Snuffbox

c.1740

France

MFA Boston

[jkthinkythoughts]

I have never in my life seen an objet d'art that qualified for the Tiffany Paradox, but here we are. It looks like it fell off a middle school girls bedroom desk circa 1987.

[nonasuch]

I love this.

also I went and looked it up on the MFA website and as I suspected, it’s made of mother-of-pearl! the rainbow parts are probably from iridescent blacklip shells, and the rest is carved white oyster shell.

[hasufin]

There are some Chinese porcelains which are definitely worthy of the Tiffany paradox - I mean, sure, it was made in the 1300s but it’s a lemon yellow tea bowl - but honestly this one really epitomizes the matter.

[glumshoe]

every time I get carsick I imagine a writer describing me as “a man of delicate constitution” and I get sort of offended

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was baking a strawberry shortcake for my mom when I realized that I forgot the baking powder. I began to panic so I pulled the cakes out of the oven; they were already completely baked but they rose just fine without the baking powder? I was staring at them in confusion, trying to remember if I accidentally put yeast in the batter, when I felt a shadow loom over me. I looked over my shoulder only to find Luigi. Luigi tenderly took my hands and told me, “You need not worry, for I will accompany you in any and all of your baking endeavors.” I have never felt more loved in my life. I cried.

[schrodingers-blursed-kitty]

I thought this was the mother of all shitposts and then I saw the url

[wakewithgiggli]

why do i never see the url?

[a-method-in-it]

No one reads urls on tumblr. Which actually works out well for the one-time-i-dreamt tumblr posts, I think, because just like the original person, we are not aware at first that we are inside the dream. And then at some point — usually towards the end when things have gotten weird enough that it’s clear this can’t resolve properly before the end of the post — we check the url and understand, much like a sleeper waking up. Once something goes up on one-time-i-dreamt it becomes a dream we all experience, together.

[strawbeb]

no, i don’t have a “dream job.” i want to spend my days reading and writing and lazing in the afternoon sun. i want to bake bread and brownies and apple crumble. i want to grow my own vegetables and plant a rainbow of flowers. i want to be with nature. i want to be at peace.

[pikaole]

Me and mom learned new English word.

[pikaole]

Wow…This is probably the most famous my posts on my Tumblr lol. 

This is what I drew after this situation 👇

[willsilvertongue]

PACIFIC RIM + letterboxd reviews (insp/insp)

[alsophila-grahami]

SOUP! SEASON! 🍲🧡🍜

gxth-jxck / mine / bewgtweets / panera's most excellent soup swimsuit / a pot of red lentils by peter pereira / bagardcardsandcrafts / the adventure zone: amnesty / one-time-i-dreamt / thevegancokehead / bridgeovertroubledwater1970

[spoogliedoo]

love watching almost 50,000 people cheer on this perfect creature evade rent-a-cops for four fucking minutes

[everythingfox]

Hunter Mode: Activated

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I’ve been joking that I’ve been haunted/possessed by the ghost of a fucked up medieval monk since childhood despite being raised an atheist. Recently I’ve started illustrating Brother Bartholomew the Nafty as the anthropomorphic personification of intrusive thoughts.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

some of his suggestions are truly beaftly

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I don’t think he’s going anywhere so I guess I’ll just have to get better at drawing

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

Bart you know how I am with needles

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

Bart’s idea of a talk-down leaves something to be desired

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

Bart is right; I’m too much of a hedonist to keep drawing this level of detail

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

sometimes it’s difficult to tell what’s Bart and what’s genuine conscientiousness

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

Bart can be pretty creative but at the end of the day has a pretty one-track mind

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

he’s “religious OCD”—that doesn’t mean he is limited to just one religion

[tikkety-tok]

not to be dramatic but I'd die for them