Boromir is The Himbo We Deserve

[mohansabbot]

@tvarchive tv appreciation week ↳ day 1: first tv obsession

Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013-2021) by Micheal Schur and Dan Goor

[lizardsister]

hey boss i can't come in today it's a sunny day and there's a lovely breeze coming in through my window, yeah it's rustling the branches of the tree outside that's finally bloomed so it's pretty serious

[racistspiderman]

More women

[sevey6]

Thank god they decided to make more

[somesaypoetry]

Wow

Dolly Parton has really been hard at work

[cumbacon]

But In doing so…she created her biggest enemy…Jolene

[ichikun]

[kwistowee]

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001) THE LORD OF THE RINGS

[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.

[swordsoprano]

tolkien, or me on the first day of pride month?

[lizardho]

also I managed to find an abomination.

see, my dining hall food is normally really good, so when they had chili one day I was like

"wonder how this will compare to some random mormon grandma's chilli"

Tell my why the chilli was BEANLESS

I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT WAS POSSIBLE

Beanless chili is just shitty stew

[inbabylontheywept]

Beanless chili is like a loveless marriage: It's horrible, it does exist, and Texas insists its better that way.

[aliosne]

[akajustmerry]

I've recently been doing a lot of reading about what makes the Romance Genre™ the Romance Genre™ and as it turns out the most important thing a story needs to be a romance is that the couple have to be unambiguously happily together in the end. That's it. Apparently, if this isn't true of your couple in the end then your story cannot be of the Romance Genre™, then it's just literary fiction. And this is actually such an insane revelation to me like I can't stop thinking about it because it explains why so often when I've attempted to read Romance™ and 9 times outta 10 I'm annoyed because I feel like these characters get together and it costs them being interesting. I cannae get over that the reason so much romance sucks ass is because the only hard rule is basically "these people MUST be together even if it would be better if they weren't because god forbid the reader is confronted with the notion of impermanence" like....I can't really explain the depths of how silly I find this rule and how much it goes against what I find compelling to read/write about wrt to romance. It's akin to finding out that the Hayes Code is fully enforced in 2026 and everyone agreeing the Hayes Code is how movies should be made because otherwise it doesn't count as a movie. That's how this revelation of "you haven't written a romance story™ unless your characters unambiguously live happily ever after" makes me feel. I personally prefer to think of romance as a method, as means, as a set of knives to cut characters open and go rummaging around for hidden treasure that can't be found any other way, if you will. Who cares if the characters will live "happily ever after"? Here's a better question, are they even yet living?

[bethanydelleman]

I understand your frustration, and I think what you are really annoyed at is books being written poorly, but I also understand why this genre requirement exists and I sympathize with it. When I reach for Romance, it's because I want to know that it will be okay in the end. There is something comforting in knowing that no matter what happens, what trials and tribulations come along on the way, these two people will come out okay, alive, and in love.

Sometimes you just need that? To relax. To have security in a world that feels like it's on fire. To believe in the possibility of true love against all odds, even if you don't believe it in real life. I think there is a beauty in that.

[shandyan]

It's a bit like how the genre convention of a detective story is that the crime will be solved. It would be much more realistic if that wasn't the case (at least some of the time), but that's not what people are looking for when they reach for an Agatha Christie book!

[wokeuphighbyvanessacarlton]

Like I'm sorry but "I want to and I have ideas" is not a reason for me to vote for you to be one of a few hundred people who make the laws of the entire country (or state) I live in. I'm tired of "outsiders" I don't want a liberal Donald Trump I want actual experienced smart people who know what they're doing. I'm sorry if the people at podsa can't feel better about being insufficiently masculine for their own tastes. I actually take the world I live in seriously.

[rabbitkinglune777]

trans women make this place better

[rabbitkinglune777]

not just the website but da world!

[kateammann]

Happy Pride Month to all of my fellow aces!! 🖤🩶🤍💜

[tanjashu]

Can't stop thinking about Maedhros having a Turin-moment

[etirabys]

As a kid I was confused by how much precious stuff went into ancient graves (gold, furs), but I guess it's often easier as a community to pitch it all into a kurgan than to argue about who gets what

"throwing gold into a pit and hauling a big rock over it is a social technology"

[etirabys]

"this guy was buried with more gold than all the other people from the same millennium combined! maybe he was a great guy."

camera pans to a dipshit who refused to declare a successor lying on a bier, as his six dipshit sons who are about to destroy their tiny civilization if they don't get The Headdress glare at each other above his corpse, village elders whispering urgently in the background

[sallysavestheday]

Spark; Flare

Maedhros shivers in the dark for years, never knowing when the scorching probe into his mind may come: What will you tell me now, little king? Plans, dreams, the impotent hopes of the Noldor...all the bitter secrets of their Exile are held up for mockery, scorned. Every tender memory of youth is stained with shame. Over time, he learns to let the touch sear through him. He calls on his father’s legacy to drink the burning in. That resistance sends him to the wall, to hang alone, in pain. But when the Sun rises, Maedhros’ eyes mirror its flame.

Drabble #1 for @feanorianweek. Also on AO3.

[gregtom]

[k-simplex-deactivated20241001]

Happy Pride

[bookhobbit]

The first rule of sewing is you can fix anything if you have patience, creativity, and a little bit of extra fabric! The second rule of sewing is AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!