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swampdiamonds replied to your photoset: The Terrace Houses at Ephesus were so fucking...
Gogol this is the coolest fuckin thing I’ve ever seen, I can’t stop looking at all the fancy floors
I KNOW. I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY WE LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE rich people no longer design their houses so that I, or at least a very small version of myself, can play hopscotch on Medusa’s face, where did we go wrong
top 5 nienor moments
my first depressing thought: are there five nienor moments? 😭😭😭 THERE ARE AND THEY’RE ALL ICONIC
1. The confrontation with Morwen after we find out she was following in disguise… That’s the most character-defining moment in the book and every time I reread it I feel like I can see it vividly, the contrast between her youthful, golden, ‘masculine’ aesthetic in the garb of a tall elven soldier versus Morwen’s somber, older, ‘feminine’ aesthetic in the role of a mournful mother…. I love that we can see someone who can think very clearly and logically, who’s resourceful and reasonable and capable, but who’ll still jeopardize her safety (and other people’s) out of family loyalty, which is how she learned to love, I love how she knows exactly how to be assertive with Morwen (which also makes me 1000% sure they rarely ever argued if at all), oh well, it’s a perfect scene, not a single hair our of place there, 10/10, best introduction any character in any tolkien work has ever had (and yes i am counting treebeard and sam on this one). unforgettable.
2. There’s a reason Nienor’s meeting with Glaurung is the scene artists ever seem to choose to depict…. the children of húrin at least are not craven… Nienor tries to stare a dragon down??? (also enough proof to me that nienor spent time putting together a mental picture of Túrin based on what scraps of stories she could acquire from Morwen and the other residents of Morwen’s house ;-; my lonely girl ilhsm)
3.
Brandir: you’re pregnant and maybe depressed… please chill
Nienor: watch this:
‘Men of Brethil! I will not wait here. If my lord fails, then all hope is false. Your land and woods shall be burned utterly, and all your houses laid in ashes, and none, none, shall escape. Therefore why tarry here? Now I go to meet the tidings and whatever doom may send. Let all those of like mind come with me!’
(And like a bunch of people go “out of pity of Niniel and desire to befriend her”… this book is too much… )
4. Maybe it’s not Woke enough to say this, but I really like the Strange Change scene where Nienor just bolts and starts running throughout the forest ending with her on finduilas’s burial site, just because it’s a really beautiful scene…. sorry im shallow
5. every single other nienor scene goes here: her first moments in Brethil relearning to speak and to…be………., her absolutely heartwrenching death scene with the only pun that will make you cry and not because you hate it, and the part where she recognizes in Túrin something she had long sought for, which you can interpret as it being he himself, the brother she went out to seek, or Morwen, whom she was looking for before meeting Glaurung and being enchanted by him, and whom Túrin canonically resembles a lot (or both!)
garden-ghoul replied to your post: this is a GREAT post
the fact that there’s a weird angel guy called proginoskes sort of makes me want to read it but lbr I hate philosophy, this is a tragedy bc all the weird angel guys are in philosophy
it was a super freaky journey-to-the-center-of-the-mind thing where they and proginoskes kidnap their school principal and astral-project into a mitochondrion and try to telepathically convince these little magic shrimpy creatures called farandolae who live in everyone’s mitochondria to fight a galaxy-sized (?) shadow monster (?) who might be satan (?) bc size is Fake and also there are really extended psychic torture scenes. i don’t think there was TOO much philosophy but uh kid-me did not have a normal gauge for what qualifies as ‘too much philosophy’
swampdiamonds replied to your post: this is a GREAT post
Oh man these posts are motivating me to dig out and photograph some of my and my dad’s vintage SF/F paperbacks, we have some real gems…and some real “"gems”“.
OMG OMG OMG I WANNA SEE THESE SO BAD esp if there’s anything recognizable to i, a general non-fan of vintage sci-fi novels
actualmermaid replied to your post: this is a GREAT post
The Dragonriders Of Pern series has some great international 70s-present covers
this might be more effective if i knew what the contents of Dragonriders of Pern were so i could be properly baffled at the artist’s conception...
swampdiamonds replied to your photoset: Spent the morning at the shelter. The depth of...
these are all adorable! I especially love the fierce bby at bottom left
Thank you! :D I’m finally getting back into my Shelter Saturday routine again, so there’ll probably be cat photos on a regular basis. :D
Mrs. Dalloway?
added to TBR | on my TBR | couldn’t finish it | did not enjoy | it was OK | liked it | loved it | favorite | not interested
I feel like I need to at least try to read some Virginia Woolf at some point in my life (besides the excerpts of “A Room of One’s Own” we read in my Intro to Gender Studies class, as you do) and I just looked up the summary of this one and it sounds pretty interesting.
good morning, happy birthday! if it is your birthday-- I think I might be a day or two off. but have a great day either way!
NO it’s my real life birthday! Thank you for my birthday! [I dress up in linear time like a girl wearing her mother’s fancy shoes]
swampdiamonds replied to your post “TOP 5 BIRDS!”
omg please tell us more about the emu farming scam ��
Now i’m unsure whether it was emus or ostriches tbh BUT BASICALLY this company convinced a lot of people (all over the country) that ostriches reproduced SO FAST, and so that if you bought a few animals you’d have ridiculously fast and high financial return. Ostrich meat was also supposed to become the next Big Thing in the World, and the company promised to rebuy the animals you bought after a couple years, something something, I don’t remember very well... but it worked like a pyramid scheme and they went as far as to buy some land near recife to set up a fakey ostrich ranch with like, idk, 30k animals at most, when they were supposed to have more than half a million? And in all the years the company worked they NEVER ACTUALLY PRODUCED OR SOLD A SINGLE GRAM OF OSTRICH MEAT... it was really just a chill farm.... My father knows people who put their money into it avsgbdhbfhbr
When the fraud was revealed the owner fucked off to paraguay and still lived there to this day i think! No idea what happened to the poor birds tho :( Will try to find out!
karamazovnokyodai replied to your photoset “It’s time for you, the viewer, to imagine something stupid: me...”
I want to eat that cloud
alkarinque replied to your photoset “It’s time for you, the viewer, to imagine something stupid: me...”
intensely compelled to eat these photos omg
swampdiamonds replied to your photoset “It’s time for you, the viewer, to imagine something stupid: me...”
I cannot stop looking at this fog, how is this real!!
anoteinpink replied to your photoset “It’s time for you, the viewer, to imagine something stupid: me...”
mist u could cut with a knife
Thank you! Thank you! I’m glad we’re all on the same page here. Fortunately there was more than enough to go around. I should print postcards.
