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Unmarried girl
Apologist
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Dying person
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I don’t think any movie will make me feel the same ethereal sense of otherworldly sorrow and disembodied awe as that scene in Lord of the Rings where the loyal son is sent off into a doomed battle to please his vindictive father while Pippin sings a mourning song of his people
I was like 12 and high off this shit
These movies CHANGED ME
This is one of my favourite parts of the whole trilogy. It’s haunting.
And that Pippin takes actually a happy walking song of his people, because Hobbit songs are generally happy and about food and drink and gifts and things, and *transforms* it into a mourning song.
The song is from Fellowship, before all the heavy plot hits and they’re still in the Shire. It’s about walking, and how eventually all the bad things that scare or sadden you will fade away and you’ll be home warm by the fire.
And Pippin takes it, changes the lines, the key, and sings a song that is truly fit for Denethor’s great hall.
Knowing Billy Boyd gave his own melody to it and everyone had chills after hearing him sing it. This is how you get actors involved with the story and character, this is how amazingly well these films were cast. Fans have been singing that haunting tune in echoing halls and caves and towers for 20 years now and it never loses its beauty.
Home is behind
The world ahead
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadow
To the edge of night
Until the stars are all alight
Mist and shadow
Cloud and shade
All shall fade
All shall
Fade
And even better: Billy Boyd composed the tune to the song and then performed it for Peter Jackson and everyone else while filming. They only did one take! That very first take is the one that’s used in the film! He’s just that good!!
Every now and then I like to pull up this video of Billy Boyd being endearing and silly and choked up about Boromir’s death scene, and then performing this song upon request:
I sing it as a lullaby to my children but I use the original “away shall fade” to make it less sad because they’re just babies. uwu
Not even my fandom and I have chills.
You know what, I’m not done. Every aspiring writer should watch that scene and keep in mind the axiom “every person is the protagonist in their own mind,” because Denethor and Pippin are having TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT CONVERSATIONS.
Here’s the translation of how it goes.
WHAT DENETHOR SAYS: can you sing, Master Hobbit?
WHAT DENETHOR MEANS: I want entertainment and you’re from far lands. That’s a novelty here.
WHAT PIPPIN HEARS: I don’t care that I just sent my son to his death. Entertain me.
WHAT PIPPIN SAYS: yes. Well, well enough for my own people. But we have no songs fit for great halls.
WHAT PIPPIN MEANS: yes. But not for you. And our songs aren’t for people who engage in such cruelty.
WHAT DENETHOR HEARS: yes, but I’m embarrassed because mine are simple folk, and you’re very grand and regal. There’s no way I could be of any use to you.
WHAT DENETHOR SAYS: and why should your songs be unfit for my halls? Sing me a song.
WHAT DENETHOR MEANS: we’re all equals culturally. I’m a benevolent ruler, I don’t think your songs are inferior to those produced by my skilled musicians. Let me engage with your culture.
WHAT PIPPIN HEARS: I have literally already forgotten about my son. I’m more interested in entertainment and food, things you normally adore and which I’m making a mockery of by my actions. So sing to me songs of those things you love, entertainment and food. My son doesn’t matter to me and shouldn’t matter to you.
And then Pippin sings.
WHAT DENETHOR HEARS: what a pretty little song.
WHAT PIPPIN IS SAYING WITH THE SONG: fuck you for doing this to your son, who I love. Fuck you for doing this to me, as I mourn. Fuck you for making a mockery of the things I love, when it’s clear you don’t care for them any more than you do for YOUR SON. Your child, who you should want to protect. If you won’t mourn in these halls, by everything I hold dear I swear SOMEONE will.
Pippin can’t say any of this out loud. But his word choices are extremely deliberate. And so are Denethor’s! He does not see himself as a bad person! I don’t know enough LOTR to know if he’s a villain or just an asshole, but the important thing here is HE THINKS OF HIMSELF AS NEITHER. He’s a good guy who’s had to make some hard choices, that’s all. It’s the editing that tells you he’s not actually that at all.
This is a MASTERCLASS in “everyone is their own protagonist” and if this is the standard the movies rise to all the time I understand why y’all love them so much, because holy shit. That’s incredible.
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Okay you know what. I've been annoyed by this for a while but I'm extra annoyed today for whatever reason. I would happily cross-post my fic to FFN but I do not appreciate their hate boner for author's note chapters. My shit comes with multiple appendices, man, I am not backing down from that or leaving chapters off! I literally cannot follow this.
"The chapter system is not to be used as placeholder for non-story content such as author notes. You can add short author notes to the beginning or at the end of stories but never as individual chapters."
Sorry not sorry that I can't fit the enormous amount of worldbuilding I personally did, which is still transformative fan work, in three sentences. It's staying. FFN is just gonna not host any of my work other than what it already does.
(There's a single, ancient story of mine up there. It's not great, I won't tell you where it is or what my name was, but I wouldn't mind rewriting it maybe...)
I just gotta figure out how to put three novels plus some short stories over on fanfiction.lol because I like its vibes and I'd be the first one in my fandom there, which entertains me. It's such an old fandom that older sites tend to have a lot of very 90s-00s fics, and newer sites often have nothing. That's what's gotten me thinking about cross-posting, I think.
He who hesitates is SECOND in the fandom, I crie. But mobile is so ass to try and copy entire things over...
I will go ahead and warn you--as someone who tried crossposting one of my fics--that fanfic.net has a ton of bots. Just be aware of that.
Yeah, I think I'm not going to bother with FFN. I'd have to edit certain things down that I'm not willing to budge on, though I'm going to give fanfiction.lol a try at some point soon and see how that works out. FFN has enough issues that I don't think it would be at all fun or have much point to using it.
Yeah, that's fair. FFN is.....I tried crossposting, and like the only comments I got were clearly bots. That, and the formatting was so different it messed up a ton of my writing. It was a lot more effort than it was worth, honestly.
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Okay you know what. I've been annoyed by this for a while but I'm extra annoyed today for whatever reason. I would happily cross-post my fic to FFN but I do not appreciate their hate boner for author's note chapters. My shit comes with multiple appendices, man, I am not backing down from that or leaving chapters off! I literally cannot follow this.
"The chapter system is not to be used as placeholder for non-story content such as author notes. You can add short author notes to the beginning or at the end of stories but never as individual chapters."
Sorry not sorry that I can't fit the enormous amount of worldbuilding I personally did, which is still transformative fan work, in three sentences. It's staying. FFN is just gonna not host any of my work other than what it already does.
(There's a single, ancient story of mine up there. It's not great, I won't tell you where it is or what my name was, but I wouldn't mind rewriting it maybe...)
I just gotta figure out how to put three novels plus some short stories over on fanfiction.lol because I like its vibes and I'd be the first one in my fandom there, which entertains me. It's such an old fandom that older sites tend to have a lot of very 90s-00s fics, and newer sites often have nothing. That's what's gotten me thinking about cross-posting, I think.
He who hesitates is SECOND in the fandom, I crie. But mobile is so ass to try and copy entire things over...
I will go ahead and warn you--as someone who tried crossposting one of my fics--that fanfic.net has a ton of bots. Just be aware of that.
tbh i think the funniest phenomena that’s been happening in the last couple years is “youtuber, having gone too deep into the research hole, has been made an investigative journalist against their will”
Shout out to the guy who wanted to do some fun & silly little reviews but uncovered an illegal gambling operation
(Review 2)
this guy started out poking fun at australian politicians and ended up investigating the firebombing of his own home, during which he uncovered connections between the same politician he was making fun of + major organized crime
“So I did what any normal person would do, okay? I bought a hat and some makeup and disguised myself so that I could go undercover and do some digging on what I thought could be an illegal gambling operation that was fronting as a kebab restaurant.”
Amazing.
I for one, welcome this new niche genre of detective fiction.
I watched the second video and I feel it’s vitally important for people to know that the question “who firebombed my house?” isn’t a rhetorical one or a hyperbolic one, he genuinely doesn’t know because his list of proven enemies includes, in no particular order:
The cops
The terrorist surveillance branch of said cops
The government
No, seriously, multiple current and former government officials have openly stated beef with him
The most violent crime family in Australia
The gambling lobby
Money launderers
Other journalists
Drug dealers
The seventh richest man in Australia
Property Developers
And a partridge in a pear tree
He legitimately doesn’t know which one of his enemies might have done it (even though he has strong suspicions) because they’ve collectively already attempted to shut him up with legal attacks that could’ve resulted in actual jail time and many, many more shady tactics, including smear campaigns, outright lying to authorities (who also hate him) and lying under oath (the courts probably also hate him but are more quiet about it).
He legitimately went into hiding for a few months to assess the threat level after being firebombed and escaping with his life by sheer luck.
And you know what? He went right back to being an annoying little pissant to the most powerful people in his country and has become more prolific than ever after that video up there. I personally subscribed to his patreon because frankly? Anyone with that many enemies who legitimately want him silenced or dead deserves a few bucks a month.
And lets not talk about Hbomberguy, who wanted to know who made the original oof from roblox, and accidentally discovered that
Tommy Tallarico is a Fucking Liar lmao
A new edition to this went in willingly and it became way bigger than ever expected!
I started watching the LEGO video by Reckless Ben because I have a few rooms to paint and “small town LEGO thief” sounded like the perfect low-stakes, long-form background noise to keep me going. 4 hours later and what the fuck what the FUCKKK
My spouse and I have been watching the updates that are actively being released and calling each other like
Pokemon but I gave them IRL common names
Fun Fact:
nuh-uh
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