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[whereistheonepiece]

1000 works.... 1000 works??? Bitch, you're probably not gonna read 1000 full stories in your lifetime! Talk to me when your ship has 30-50 works and then I'll commiserate with you.

[witchywill0w]

These kids don't KNOW the pain of desperately scrolling through the tag for a ship and only finding three works, and two of them are absolute garbage

[shadowy-dumbo-octopus]

30-50? Y'all have more than 10?

[emperorsfoot]

When AO3 gives you this message, then you can talk to me about how your ship is a Rare Pair! My ship is so rare, the only fics for it were written by me!

[strawberryoverlord]

My ship is so rare it doesn't have fic at all and only has like 2 (joking) fanarts

[ankle-beez]

[wickedcriminal]

Oh boy I can't wait to see the season premiere of 'My Mom Sold Me To One Direction', that one's a true classic

[muffinshark]

alternate universes 

[catburger]

[stretchygazelle]

Must be painting a children’s hospital

[faggo-tron-prime]

She’s so good with color! That’s some strong use of color theory right there

[le-dreadmau5]

I hate you all and your fucking lore

[botanyshitposts]

scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple

the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

[flipocrite]

[clickityweasel]

[smartasticalart]

There are only three genders

[creativemastermind]

You forgot something

[thethilde]

Four genders of the Apocalypse

[swampedrat]

they have my heart

[thethilde]

Man-crushes who confirm a girl is not straight. Let me elaborate

Howl

Legolas

Damiano David

[thethilde]

Let last night be the lesson that pleather pants are not conducive to performance

Take notes from Damiano and Montero scuse the photo “quality” 

[thethilde]

‘Zitti e buoni’ is the new bisexual anthem

on the same note I’d like to thank Maneskin for their service to the community and awakening the bi in a whole lots of people

[thethilde]

Top 6 Eurovision 2021 entries

Italy - bisexual

Ukraine - pansexual

Iceland - gay

France - heteroflexible

Finland - straight allies

Switzerland - gay (homophobic)

(congrats Italy btw)

[wondersmith-and-sons]

listen, yeah, tumblr is unhinged and full of clowns but it’s unhinged in a way that has coherence. the clownery has continuity. you could reference memes from 6 years ago and people would still get it. you could make jokes from long-dead shows and someone could still understand the weird cryptic hieroglyphic language of internet culture. there’s institutional memory here. where else am i gonna get that? twitter? twitter is just 5-minute rage cycles and blue check marks with too much hubris

[thequeensofbeauty]

Normani | Savage X Fenty, April 2020

[saint-cecilias]

a pervasive and frankly borderline toxic issue in fandom these days is how popular headcanons are elevated to the status of being irrefutable canon and so insanely clung to and that when they are challenged, majority of fandom lose their damn minds and forget they was the ones to make the shit up in the first place 

[loisfreakinglane]

#im not a CANON IS END ALL BE ALL person at all#but once fandom gets locked in on a specific headcanon and they can find a way to weaponize a moral reason why it is SO#fuggetaboutit#and its EXHAUSTING to watch tbh#going into non-edit tags is like setting urself on fire#and im a FANDOM OLD and  like lol it wasn’t always like this

[saint-cecilias]

#your headcanons might be important#they might enhance your canon experience by a fuckton#they might make all kinds of sense to you#but literally none of that makes them actual canon#LITERALLY NONE OF IT#and its exhausting to see ppl villified for not falling in line with certain headcanons

[greyduckgreygoose]

anytime a character on the witcher mentions melitele my mind replaces it with that french cat on twitter

[greyduckgreygoose]

YES THIS EXACTLY

[janeaustentextposts]

Given your (accurate) criticisms of Mr Bennet's approach to parenting, why do you think he is portrayed in the text in a better light than say Mrs Bennet or Sir Walter? Is it because we're mainly in Lizzie's POV and she likes him?

See, I don’t know that he IS portrayed in a better light than Sir Walter or Mrs. Bennet, strictly speaking. He’s clearly more intelligent than those two, and certainly warmer towards Lizzie, even as he is dismissive and even cruel towards his other daughters, but his neglect and selfishness is clear.

I do think readers are more apt to forgive Mr. Bennet because they DO want to identify with Elizabeth, though Elizabeth has the pain and struggle later in the novel of facing up to the fact that her Fun Dad has actually behaved very crappily to everyone, and the threat to her own happiness has not been spared merely because she’s his favourite, so his preferential treatment begins to wear thin and feel hollow. Yes, he saved her from being forced to marry Mr. Collins; but indirectly his failure to provide for his daughters/address Lydia’s behaviour has shitcanned all possibility of anyone’s future security and happiness with respectable gentlemen.

It’s easy to blame Lydia/Wickham on the surface for wrecking the family, because they Do the Thing, but Mr. Bennet laid the groundwork for YEARS and made the entire catastrophe possible in the first place. He had to get, like, six different things wrong in order for Wickham and Lydia to even have the chance to run off.

It’s kind of a reflection of Lizzie’s own growth lessons in realizing her wit and intelligence do not necessarily make her a better person--her quick judgements of Wickham and Darcy are wrong, and her initial condemnation of Charlotte’s engagement feels wildly unfair. Likewise, Mr. Bennet’s wit is used to belittle his wife and daughters, while he’s doing nothing. A healthy retirement savings plan would no doubt ease Mrs. Bennet’s nerves to a great extent, and a better education would improve his ‘inferior’ daughters’ minds and habits, but Mr. Bennet doesn’t push for this. He sits on his ass, then points and laughs at the people he’s doing nothing to look after for being...poorly looked-after. He twists their irritating defects into purely the fault of their personal failings, and doesn’t for a moment consider that he could and should have any positive influence as a husband and parent and clearly the stronger mind and spirit in those dynamics. He’s intelligent, but he lacks any self-reflection to consider the possibility that he might be mistaken, or broader consideration of the feelings of others in how he wields his wit. Elizabeth must learn to do this, or else she will sit in her erroneous judgements like her father, smug and alone.

[deanhoney-deactivated20220819]

what she says: i’m fine

what she means: the words “christmas tree” are used in the hobbit, and since we know that bilbo is the author of the hobbit, hobbits must have christmas which means there must be a middle earth jesus. but hobbits seem to be the only ones who have the concept of christmas which means it was probably a hobbit jesus. but frodo says in return of the king that no hobbit has ever intentionally harmed another hobbit so who crucified hobbit jesus?? were there other hobbit incarnations of religious figures?? was there hobbit moses?? did jrr tolkien even think about this at all??

[maramahan]

Wait wait I might actually have an answer

Tolkien wrote The Hobbit like waaaay before he even dreamed up the idea for Lord of the Rings, so when he DID dream up LotR, he had a whole bunch of stuff that didn’t make sense. Like plotholes galore

Like for example in the first version Gollum was a pretty nice dude who lost the riddle contest graciously and gave Bilbo the ring as a legit present and was very helpful and it was super nice and polite and absolutely nobody tried to eat anyone because this is a story for kids and that’s very rude

But that doesn’t work with LotR, so Tolkien went back and re-released an updated version of The Hobbit with all the lore changes and stuff to fix everything that didn’t work

This is the version we know and love today

BUT rather than pretend the early version never existed, Tolkien went and worked the retcon into the lore

If you pay attention in Fellowship, there’s a bit where Gandalf is telling Frodo about the ring and he mentions how Bilbo wasn’t entirely honest about the manner in which it was found

To us modern readers, this doesn’t make a ton of sense, so mostly we just breeze by it–but actually that line is referencing the first version of The Hobbit

The pre-retcon version of the Hobbit is canonically Bilbo’s original book. The original version with Nice Gollum is canonically a lie Bilbo told to legitimize his claim to the ring and absolve him of the guilt he feels for his rather shady behavior

Then the post-retcon version is an in-universe edited edition someone went and released later to straighten out Bilbo’s lies

So it’s 100% plausible that the in-universe editor who fixed up Bilbo’s Red Book and translated it from whatever language Hobbits speak was a human who knew about Christmas Trees and tossed the detail in to make human readers feel more at home, because that’s the kind of thing that sometimes happens when you have a translator editor person dressing up a story for an audience that doesn’t know the exact cultural context in which the original story was written

Tolkien was a medieval scholar and medieval stories are rife with that sort of thing, so like… yeah

There’s a good chance it maybe did cross his mind

[scripturient-manipulator]

@old-gods-and-chill LOOK AT THIS THAT’S SO COOL

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

Not only all that, but Tolkien was also working within a frame narrative that he wasn’t the real author, but a translator of older manuscripts; so, in-universe, the published The Hobbit isn’t actually Bilbo’s book, but rather Tolkien’s copy of an older copy of an older copy of an older copy of Bilbo’s book. So when errors and anachronisms came up, he would leave them there instead of fixing them, and he may have even put some in intentionally; what we’re supposed to get from the “Christmas tree” bit is that the first scribe to translate the book from Westroni to English couldn’t come up with an accurate analogue for whatever hobbits do at midwinter.

[anarcho-tolkienist-deactivated2]

Yes. Another example of tolkien doing this is him using, for instance, Old High Gothic to represent Rohirric - not because the people of Rohan actually spoke that language, but because Old High Gothic had the same relationship with English that Rohirric had with Westron (Which is the Common Language spoken in the West of Middle-Earth). There’s tons of that stuff in the book.

[anarcho-tolkienist-deactivated2]

Like, Merry and Pippin’s real names (In Westron) are Kalimac Brandagamba and Razanur Tûk, respectively (to pick just one example of this). Tolkien changed their names in English to names which would give us English-speakers the same kind of feeling as those names would to a Westron-speaker. Lord of the Rings is so much deeper than most readers realise.

[jumpingjacktrash]

tolkein’s entire oevre is just one epic in-joke with the oxford linguistics department imo