#homeposting

[catilinas]

gandalf would not use french

[jaskersneakthief]

what if i offered him a fatass blunt what then

[saint-cloud]

tbh small towns when you’re depressed are miserable hellholes where you’ll be recognized on 2/3 of every errand run and look just as sad after months and feel people talk. and then a couple of things go right and you get to shove it in everyone’s faces that you made it :-)

[anendoandfriendo]

Mister Loudy McLoudface needs to shut the [BLANK] up.

- Shion

...

You can just say "fuck" you know...

Yes she, in fact, blanked out the word in our headspace. There wasn't a slind or even an abescence, just this weird liminal [BLANK] that I'm sure systems will understand, and only systems.

- Shuna

[catilinas]

the treacherous shaft of curufin

[catilinas]

pretty epic how felagund turning faltering into staying is—in a battle of song—reflected in what would be a rhyming couplet concluding in his failure being resolved into a triplet where he continues instead. like the power of the song is metaleptic. yippeeeeee

[catilinas]

(rotk / earlier version of the same passage in HoME vol 8)

the change from ‘leant upon his father’ to ‘leaned upon his father’s chair’ is crazyyyyyy. like you can see tolkien thinking hmmm. actually i need to make the relationship between denethor and faramir worse

[catilinas]

the description of thingol’s crown changes over the course of the lay of leithian (‘silver grey’ ‘gold […] with ruby red and crystal clear’ ‘green and silver’) (also in book of lost tales ‘a wreath of scarlet leaves’) -> revisions and inconsistencies across drafts -> wrong. he had multiple crowns because he was a fashionista