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random anecdote for father's day: one time during a long car ride my dad asked me, "you're familiar with Murphy's Law, right?" and i was like "isn't that the one about how anything that can go wrong will go wrong?" and he said "yeah, exactly" and i said "why do you ask?" and he went "well, have you heard of Cole's Law?" and i said "no, actually, what's that?" and he said "it's mostly lettuce and carrots with a little dressing mixed in"

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the other thing about Internet dogpiling is that it is just not possible to think clearly during the acute stages. it’s so easy to criticize people for responding defensively or tactlessly to mass criticism but I cannot overstate the degree to which your brain becomes a rat in a trap. I think we do have to temporarily recalibrate our expectations in these circumstances and accept that they do not necessarily represent how that person responds to criticism. the skills for self-regulating and reacting to normal interpersonal criticism are not the same skills needed to respond to viral callouts.

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as other people have pointed out:

for most of human history, if a bunch of people are really mad at you specifically all at once, it means you’re about to die badly. obviously that’s not the case with internet controversy (…usually) but our nervous systems don’t know that. I just think that’s a variable we have to consider inherent to the circumstances rather than an aberration.

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omtai

Man I miss free the nipple. Its getting warmer and we don’t even have free the nipple anymore

gramarye

feminism has backslid so hard in recent years people don't even know what free the nipple means anymore

markwateneymemorialcrater

One thing that I think is great about Hugo Weavings portrayal of Elrond in LoTR is just how tired and exhausted he is. Like this is a guy who has lived thousands of years. He has seen dynasties and kingdoms rise and tear each other down. Both of elves and men. Yes he comes across as arrogant. But he also has just ran out of energy to fake caring about the same mistakes being made for the hundredth time this millennia.

Like look at him. He hasn’t had a hope in his world in centuries. This is a man that is very familiar with disappointment.

caesxr

‘beyond the scope of this paper’ is a dear friend to me. I Am Not Fucking Talking About That

somestorythoughts

"Look I can stay on track or this paper can be three times as long, your choice."

thestuffedalligator

Shout out to the clover, the dandelion and the daisy. The triumvirate of springtime childish whimsy. WHO is doing it like them

beleriand-rhapsody

at least to me, elrond is the key character of the saga as a whole- the silmarillion, the hobbit, and the lord of the rings.

he's the son of the hero. he loses his mother because of a silmaril, and gains two father figures. in the end, the three silmarils share a fate with each of his three fathers. his brother becomes the king of numenor, which is to be the greatest and the most influential kingdom of men.

he's the sole heir of gondolin, and to him goes glorfindel's allegiance; the balrog slayer reincarnated and returning from the blessed lands. in him lives on fingolfin, turgon, idril, tuor, melian, luthien, and beren.

he's there when sauron returns, and he's there in the thick of battle against his might. he's the herald of the high king, and to him is entrusted one of the three elven rings. he witnesses isildur taking the one ring.

he's the one pointing thorin and his company toward the halls of their fathers and the arkenstone, and his house- the last homely house, the last refuge and place of healing- is where bilbo wishes to return to after a long lifetime.

he fosters the line of his brother; the mortal children who would become chieftains of their people- one of which helps save the world and becomes king.

he shelters frodo, and he directs the one ring to be destroyed. in his house was coordinated the fellowship, and it is where they set out on their journey to mordor.

with his passing ends the age of the elves. a new chapter begins, where the narrative pen comes to a halt. with his passing ends the tale.

sapphicseance

mom said it's my turn to hand out the ominous and vague warnings

solarsyrup

that wasn’t mom

lavender-lily

they JUST SAID it was their turn

heavensenthousepet

you learn something new everyday. unless you're a historian. then you learn something old

clytemnestraaa

there’s this thing that happens on this website that’s like the opposite of pissing on the poor and is far better but also still somewhat annoying when you post something where the point is implied and then someone else adds the point you were making in a reblog as though they are like, adding something new and insightful to the post. eg you can post something about a female scientist from the 1800s having her intellect undervalued in her time and someone else is going to add like “that’s so crazy… i think they were treating her this way due to misogyny” and like well yes. i mean… yeah. you got it

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Well it’s official. Almost all of my 20-ish cousins have been divorced at some point now.

There’s one couple remaining and my hypothesis about them is that my cousin’s husband was divorced before he married her so the universe decided that counts or something and she gets a pass.

The only other three of us who haven’t been divorced are the ones who are generally bad at finding dates in the first place. Maybe we dodged a bullet there by being undateable.

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I think my brother hasn’t been divorced because he’s the youngest out of all of us and he’s only 21 so maybe he’ll break the trend.

One cousin that’s my age was divorced by the time she was 21 though so being young isn’t a guaranteed get out of divorce free card.

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Come to think of it all of my dad’s brothers and sisters either got divorced or had a spouse die way too soon or have a crazy ex of some kind that tried to kill them so maybe my grandparents used up all of our line’s romance luck with their long and successful high school sweetheart marriage and eight kids.

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