Vicky @yesterdaywastuesday - Tumblr Blog

smllscallywag

reblog if the first musical you listened to was not Hamilton

beardedmrbean

theman

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

susanontherocks

What they said.

akabbyrenee

I need some luck!

Hoping for some!

unhinged-jackles

ok apparently some of ya’ll are undercover so how much of supernatural have you actually seen all the way through

seasons 1 - 3

seasons 1 - 5 (kripke era)

started at season 4 for cas (have not seen seasons 1 - 3)

stopped watching between seasons 6 - 8, never watched full seasons after that

stopped watching between seasons 9 - 11, never watched full seasons after that

stopped watching between seasons 12 - 15

i have watched every episode of supernatural

i have watched almost every episode of supernatural (majority of all 15 seasons)

i have never watched supernatural

other (explain your journey in the tags)

Voting ended onJun 22, 2023

reblog for a larger sample size because I’m so curious

tanoraqui

it’s just hard not to think about the fact that in 1915, JRR Tolkien went to war not with but certainly in the same army and many of the same battles as his 3 best school friends, all nicely upper class young men who had never known much loss, and only he and one other came back alive - and a couple decades later, he wrote a book in which 3 nicely upper class young men (and one very excellent gardener) who have never known much loss go to war together, or at least they start out together, and they all come home alive. (Though one cannot bear it, and does not stay.)

meerius

What more it wasn’t just losing his friends, he was a commanding officer of a battalion of working class men. All farmers and miners from the same area of Lancashire. He felt affinity for them, but wasn’t allowed to socialize between the ranks due to military protocol and he hated it.

"The most improper job of any man … is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.“

I don’t think it was even 6 months later that he contracted trench fever and was sent home.

His entire command was wiped out in one charge shortly after, the majority of a whole countryside’s youths slaughtered while he survived. Youths who were brave and steadfast, but thought of as lesser than their superior officers while still being the ones carrying the actual battle. Youths who deserved fellowship, respect, and above all to go home and dance with their own Rosie.

“My Sam Gamgee is indeed a reflection of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself”.

seriousfic

themightyglamazon

TRIES NOT TO CRY

jenniferrpovey

There is a reason Frodo, who represents the English gentry, in the end falls and is caught by Samwise, who represents the common man.

But there is a soldier in Lord of the Rings who does not come back, and I don’t mean Boromir.

I mean the being who was a common hobbit, but who became corrupted by darkness and poison, who’s face is described in ways reminiscent of a gas mask.

The soldier who doesn’t come home, who is poisoned by gas and stress and insanity.

Is Gollum.

sniperct

The Lord of the Rings repeatedly stresses the horrors of war. Eowyn’s entire arc is about the truth of warfare versus the way it’s glorified. She starts out glorifying war and combat and soldiers, even when her own brother is telling her war sucks and is terrible. And then in the end, she sees first hand what war does to people.

Aragorn’s entire arc isn’t to be the steadfast hero saving the day, it’s to hold the line in terror and horror and blood while the overlooked folk are the people who save the world. And then, what makes him a king, is not his skill in battle, but his healing hands.

Which then ties into both Eowyn and Faramir’s arcs. Eowyn goes into healing not because she’s a weak and meek woman, but because war is horrible and saving lives is better than taking them. Aragorn is glorified within the text for his healing, and so is Eowyn.

Also, tying into the common man thing, in the movies it’s Faramir but in the books it’s SAMWISE who questions what brings a man so far from home to fight in a war and if he is really so different.

LOTR is anti-war propaganda.

lookashiny

And this is why I don’t get people who find Eowyn’s fate to be anti-feminist. She doesn’t become a healer because she’s a woman, she does because it’s the right thing to do. Both her and Faramir’s futures are to renew the world. That’s a good thing.

ekjohnston

Pretty much everyone who lives gets a wildly different job at the end of the book.

(I do think Éowyn has a point about not wanting to be left behind, plus her depression, PLUS Wormtongue, but yeah: becoming a healer is not a demotion. It’s literally the king’s job.)

thespoonisvictory

people misunderstand what ‘gifted kid’ actually means but it’s ok it’s fine it’s cool it’s good

thespoonisvictory

it’s not about actually being gifted, it’s about an initial higher scoring on standardized testing that means little to nothing or being good at learning in the way elementary and middle school wants you to, so you get marked as ‘advanced’. in reality, maybe you had faster development in certain areas, but the issue with being a gifted kid isn’t that “everyone told me I was so cool and special for reading and then I actually wasn’t :(” it’s “I wasn’t properly taught to handle things not coming easily to me, but the adults around me were counting on me not being a ‘difficult’ child in school.”

people who use it as some weird bragging method or interpret it that way are ignoring the way a lot of school systems force certain roles on students to simplify the learning process. If your kid doesn’t need to take notes to understand a science concept bc they get it naturally, well that’s good, but now you’re not teaching them how to take notes and they’re not learning that important soft skill. but because ‘gifted’ kids are easy and don’t show that they’re falling behind in learning in other categories that are harder to quantify, they eventually fall behind after that catches up to them. It’s about the failures of a one size fits all school system trying to compensate in the worst way possible.

jabberwockypie

And also the thing where ‘gifted’ kids are super likely to also be neuroatypical, which they don’t get screened for because they appear to be doing well in school. Or “You can’t be ADHD/autistic/etc, because you’re doing so well in school!”. Or being shamed for developing mental health issues/generally not being able to keep up with school work later, because you USED TO BE able to do it just fine.

Or the assumption that just because you can read well or you like math class, you’re somehow more EMOTIONALLY mature than your little kid brain is actually capable of being.

Or gifted kids whose parents and teachers put immense pressure on them to Do Great Things and Save The World and you’re like. “I’m 10 and I have no idea how to do that, but everyone is saying that’s my job?”.

swordplease

This is the best “gifted kid” post out there. I never took notes until college because I didn’t have to, snd when it got challenging I had to literally teach myself note taking at age 18. It also fucks with your perception of asking for help - you’re advanced, you’re competent, you should be able to understand every topic easily. Asking for help/going to office hours/asking for a tutor feels like failing when you were praised in your early years for not needing to do that.

gothiccharmschool

ALL. OF. THIS.

Being a “gifted kid” meant that when you did struggle with learning something, the response was frequently “you’re just not applying yourself. Make more of an effort”.

heystephen

please normalize wanting to dance with somebody and PLEASE normalize wanting to feel the heat with somebody. it’s okay to want to dance with somebody who loves you.

theoneicelady

Im sorry but is this not normal?

heystephen

normalize knowing whitney houstons greatest hits

toastbutteregg

stimman4000

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ereborslionheart

tolkien fans are insufferable because you'll agree to watch the movies with them and then seven hours in they'll say "omg my favourite character is about to appear!" and it's a fucking siege weapon

rohirric-hunter

shadetree-salesman

I will not stand by while Grond, Hammer of the Underworld is slandered in such a way!

venowyn

I thought tumblr was safe from Grondposting

thespectacularspider-girl

GROND!

the-everything-man

GROND

transmechanicus

randomtechpriest

GROND GROND GROND!

error-404-fuck-not-found

grond is when you gotta change discs on the extended edition. grond signals snack breaks and a refill of the wine. grond is an omen of good fortune and some respect should be put on his fucking name

sambuckygifs

My world is beginning to move Towards a distant dream That I’d almost forgotten about. - Tatsuro Yamashita

buckywlson

#bucky: 🥺

kim-jisoo

Not necessarily as a team. Nope. Definitely not. We’re professionals. Definitely. And, uh, we’re partners. Co-workers. But we’re also a couple of guys with a mutual friend. Friend’s now gone. So we’re a couple of guys. I can live with that. Perfect.

unearthlydust

BUCKY BARNES BEING A SNACK™ + SOFT™ THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER (2021)

charli-xcx

THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER Truth (2021) dir. Kari Skogland

#the falcon and the winter soldier

thorodinsson

BUCKY BARNES + Cap’s Shield

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) Captain America: Civil War (2016) The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (2021-)