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jihef03

Gardien

pomrania

I’m pretty sure you don’t need to know French in order to understand this comic.

gallusrostromegalus

My local garden center had a strict “mask policy enforced by owner’s mother with a garden hose” and the woman really did, and I say this with adoration and aspiring to be like her someday- look like a wizened and moderately sadistic gargoyle perched on her lawn chair with the hose cocked, pressure building behind the nozzle, eagerly awaiting the next asshole.

squirejk

@no-ill-wind

bobacupcake

we are already living in the cyberpunk future and i know this because within a span of 3 days we went from this tweet:

to thousands of people making phony images and replying to them with their passionate desire to have them as a tshirt to overload the bots with nonsense and junk and send out warnings to shoppers like this:

and now we even have people replying to pictures of baby yoda with “i want this on a tshirt” knowing how ravenous disney is being with copyright in hopes to get the stores taken down altogether

i dont know what it is about stuff like this and the whole turn mei into a symbol of hk protesters thing but, its really reassuring for some reason

pinkieperil

And the next step…

systlin

https://teezyli.com/

Holy shit y’all look at the front page of the site right now

cathrine-rose

Oh my god

systlin

Anyway, I just emailed [email protected] to report the site for very evilly stealing Disney’s IP! Because obviously that is very evil and bad and shit.

anthropohedron

I’ve never seen such a perfect example of fighting fire with fire.

Holy fucking shit

I’m DYING.

😂😂😂

More accurately

NFT bots have met their match in the form of t-shirt bots stealing their 'exclusive' works. Here's how it's all going down.

The next generation…

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/10/nft-bots-tshirt-online-twitter-war/

rudywiser

derinthescarletpescatarian

This is like a “you gotta get a box of cheese, a mouse, and a cat across the river” puzzle except the goal is to get them all to eat each other somehow

personification-of-anxiety

Trolley problem but you try to maximize the kill count

kahzu

511am

Evolution of Nissan

thetyrannosaur

My cat does this before throwing up

chekhov

wildeismsremade-deactivated2019

broitsablog

@indigopersei is the french language just always on the verge of getting someone accused of assault or..?

dammitperseus

my friend, if only you knew

randomfandomteacher

It’s a very dangerous language to learn

party-bees-deactivated20181211

Here’s an interesting thing about French! Everything needs to have an article in front of it. That’s why it’s “la chat” as opposed to just “chat”. So, for instance, you could say la fille for the girl, or jeune fille for young girl, but you can’t just say fille, because that means you are calling her a sex worker in a derogatory way.

The moral of the story is, if you want to make something rude in French, just take out the article in front of it. Yes, this works for nearly. every. word.

wine-dark-sea

#now I’m wondering how often my high school french teacher was silently screaming because of this little fact

Every year. Every year there’s that kid who forgets that you can’t translate “I am excited” to “Je suis excitée”. And every year Monsieur Jordan has to slam the brakes before that kid can finish his sentence and then tactfully ask him not to announce to the class that he is horny.

shamwowxl

“is the french language always on the verge” oh buddy, oh pal, i am so happy to break this news to you:

super-metroid

truly the language of love

@no-ill-wind

@no-ill-wind

It puzzles me when people cite LOTR as the standard of “simple” or “predictable” or “black and white” fantasy. Because in my copy, the hero fails. Frodo chooses the Ring, and it’s only Gollum’s own desperation for it that inadvertently saves the day. The fate of the world, this whole blood-soaked war, all the millennia-old machinations of elves and gods, comes down to two addicts squabbling over their Precious, and that is precisely and powerfully Tolkien’s point.

And then the hero goes home, and finds home a smoking desolation, his neighbors turned on one another, that secondary villain no one finished off having destroyed Frodo’s last oasis not even out of evil so much as spite, and then that villain dies pointlessly, and then his killer dies pointlessly. The hero is left not with a cathartic homecoming, the story come full circle in another party; he is left to pick up the pieces of what was and what shall never be again.

And it’s not enough. The hero cannot heal, and so departs for the fabled western shores in what remains a blunt and bracing metaphor for death (especially given his aged companions). When Sam tells his family, “Well, I’m back” at the very end, it is an earned triumph, but the very fact that someone making it back qualifies as a triumph tells you what kind of story this is: one that is too honest to allow its characters to claim a clean victory over entropy, let alone evil.

“I can’t recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. I’m naked in the dark. There’s nothing–no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I can see him with my waking eyes.”

So where’s this silly shallow hippie fever-dream I’ve heard so much about? It sounds like a much lesser story than the one that actually exists.

sophiamcdougall

+1 You know how Frodo leaves Sam with the legacy of the quest - the job of bearing witness to what happened - and the duty to finish and protect his writings? Tolkien lost all but one of his friends in WW1. He was founder member of a literary club at school - the TCBS. There was a larger group and a core of four. They all stayed friends, they kept writing and sharing their work with each other. And they were almost all killed. One of them, Geoffrey Smith, wrote this to Tolkien in 1916. My chief consolation is that if I am scuppered tonight – I am off on duty in a few minutes – there will still be left a member of the great T.C.B.S. to voice what I dreamed and what we all agreed upon. […] May God bless you my dear John Ronald and may you say things I have tried to say long after I am not there to say them if such be my lot. And that was his last letter. There’s something eerie about the way he seems to have pegged Tolkien as an eventual survivor. Sam’s survival (and his emergence as the true hero of the book) are beautiful because they’re suffused with loss, because they’re not the grand conquering heroic narrative that on some level was “supposed” to happen.

absynthe--minded

Anybody who says that Tolkien - that The Downfall of the Lord of the Rings and the Return of the King in particular - is simplistic or happy or black and white? Hasn’t read the book. Hasn’t seen the movies, even.

nichristi

The ideals behind all of Tolkien’s writing can be seen as black and white. There are very clear “dos and do nots” all through it. The origin story of Middle Earth as set down in the Silmarillion is eerily similar to the story of the Fall of Man in Paradise Lost. It’s a world where the rules are there for a reason and those that follow those rules are good and the ones who don’t are bad. The complexity- and genius- comes in the form of Tolkien’s very realistic characters. It’s a gorgeous picture of these flawed beings (no matter the race) and how they operate within and out of those rules. This is what makes every story of Middle Earth so heart breaking. They’re fantastical and larger than life: heroic and tragic and whimsical and hilarious. And within this fantastical world, we see people. People Tolkien knew, people and languages he made up or studied in the old high legends and mythology anthologies, people he fought with in the war and people he loved and hated. All of these people have flaws. They are undeniably human in a world of dragons and wizards. Thus, they react to these things as a human would react: with love and despair and anger and all those little struggles we as humans go through on a day to day basis. When Middle Earth goes bad, it goes really bad. But is it the fault of the world itself? The rules set in place in the first chapter of the Silmarillion? No. It’s the fault of the people in it. The people form the world and all that is good and bad in it. All of their actions have consequences. None of these people are perfect, not even Aragon or Gandalf. Every single person in Tolkien’s writings messes up- like in our real world. Also as in the real world, it’s how those people deal with those mistakes that matters. For example: when Saruman makes a mistake, be it consulting with a Palantir or enslaving the Shire, he always hides it away. He hides his turning to the Eye of Sauron so completely that even his closest friend, Gandalf, cannot see the betrayal until it’s too late. What if he had seen it? What if he had acknowledged his suspicions of Saruman earlier? Could Saruman have been saved? We’ll never know, because Saruman, even when given the chance to turn back to a life of good deeds and caring about people, didn’t. On the flip side, what if Sam had killed Gollum on Mount Doom? What if there was no rage to carry the Ring over the cliff side into the fiery depths? Would Frodo have lost his footing and fallen in, causing Sam untold guilt and the Company immense sorrow even in the face of victory? Would he have repeated the actions of Isildur and kept the ring causing the destruction of the world? We’ll never know because even though Frodo himself failed, the ring found its way into the chasm. The difference is that despite Frodo’s mistakes, and despite all the good Saruman did for the white council, Frodo was the one with the heart for others and the will to do better. Saruman thought only of himself and didn’t care who he had to hurt to make himself comfortable. That selfishness vs. selflessness is seen all throughout Tolkien- Aragorn vs. Isildur, Gandalf vs. Saruman, Theoden vs. Wormtongue, Sauron vs. Beren and Luthien, and I could go on for years. So yes, in a sense, the world of Middle Earth Is black and white: the people who do things for selfish reasons, even though they do good things sometimes, will always fall to the darkness. Those who handle their failures with a heart for others and a desire to make the world better will ultimately become a hero. It’s idealistic and reflective of Tolkien’s beliefs. However the people he writes into these seemingly simple and stark principles are anything but black and white. They are scared and depressed and tired and smart and stupid and scholars, fat and lazy and nosy and good cooks and bad cooks and poets and songwriters and shipbuilders and betrayers and liars and idealistic and naive and they are all relatable. They’re real. They’re based on real people and legends and myths of real people, but each character in Middle Earth is unique with their own set of beliefs and motivations and they are so colorful. They shape the barren slate that was Middle Earth into the beautiful flawed place that she is.

squirejk

@no-ill-wind