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mmmmm a lot of ppl say it's a good thing that Tom Bombadil is left out of lotr adaptations and, I get that, even as someone who likes Tom Bom, But! Leaving out the Tom chapter(s) also means we miss out on the old forest and old man Willow which.... :(
willow's tags: #....unfriendly trees... won't anyone please think of the unfriendly dangerous malevolent trees?
mmmmm a lot of ppl say it's a good thing that Tom Bombadil is left out of lotr adaptations and, I get that, even as someone who likes Tom Bom, But! Leaving out the Tom chapter(s) also means we miss out on the old forest and old man Willow which.... :(
Tryin to prove a point to my homophobic mom
Reblog if you think it's perfectly fine and maybe even great to put coins in the blender
There’s something so ominous about the repeated notes throughout Tolkien’s histories that Ungoliant took the form of a spider, the obvious implication being that she isn’t one, she’s something else, something worse.
In Morgoth’s Ring it says she takes the form of a spider so she can weave “webs of strangling gloom” to catch light.
We actually get similar language with Glaurung who is repeatedly described as a spirit in the form of a great, wingless dragon. But though this does raise fascinating questions about Glaurung’s nature and the precise mechanisms through which he was created, we do at least know he was created in Angband by Morgoth
With Ungoliant, there is so such detail. Her first mention in The Silmarillion speaks of her through heresay, what is believed of her without offering a definitive answer. It was said that she “descended from the darkness that lies about Arda” and while Melkor sought her service early, her lack of allegiance to him began long before the darkening. Indeed there are similarities in the way Ungoliant’s “unlight” and the Shadow Morgoth casts are described
Ungoliant’s horror comes primarily from her relationship to light and her hunger. The Unlight she creates is not just darkness, it is thick with a paralysing, venomous despair
It’s worth noting that this phrasing, that the Eldar knew not where she came from, is repeated in every draft of the darkening as well as the official Silmarillion. And of course this unknowing only adds to the horror she inspires
Anyways just something I’m thinking about; I really love entities like Ungoliant and the Watcher in the Water, and what their existence means about the larger legendarium
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I don't think this is being widely covered by national news, but Western Alaska has been devastated by Typhoon Halong. Thousands of people are out of their homes, the coastal Yup'ik villages of Kwigillingok and Kipnuk had 6.6 feet of water above normal. Dozens of people were rescued swimming in icy waters, houses have been ripped off their foundations, one woman is dead, three people are still missing, and most people are sheltering in the community schools. This is a roadless, remote area where it's difficult to get supplies and help in, heading into winter. Consider giving towards the Native-coordinated disaster response sending food and other supplies if you can.
Man, I really think Celegorm's motivation in holding Luthien captive was a revenge thing against Thingol for what Eol, his kinsmen and subject did to Aredhel.
I imagine the letter went something like,
" I hear it is the Sindarin marriage custom to abduct the bride and imprision her indefinitely."
Hmmm, I edited this post like a week after I made it back in 2019 to make it clearer that this is was just a headcanon and that I don't think it would make celegorm right at all, but by that point the 1st version of the post had already gotten reblogged and spread. I have mixed feeling about this post, because I think the headcanon is fine, but I worry about being misunderstood, or it being misconstrued. Im not sure if I should just delete it, try to clarify again or just trust ppl to read in good faith and let it go, idk.
theres a phenomenon that happens on here i have been calling "normalize loving parents posting" which is when you spend a lot of time on tumblr and are exposed to a lot of one specific counter-cultural narrative day in and day out until you start to forget what the dominant ideas are for most of the human population and thus feel the need to "defend" things that are widely accepted and popular. it's called this because of the time a bunch of text posts about shitty dads were circulating and then people with good relationships with their dad didn't feel included enough and started making "uhmmm can we normalize loving parents? not everyone has a deadbeat dad, MY dad is great" type posts, seemingly forgetting that good relationship with dad is a cultural norm that is expected and encouraged. i think its good practice, especially when im annoyed, to stop before i hit the post button and ask myself if this is a real issue or if im normalize loving parents posting. because often im about to try to normalize loving parents
common examples of normalize loving parents posting:
support women who shave their legs and wear makeup every day
let's hear it for masculine men
reminder that two people of the same gender can have a close platonic relationship!! not everything is gay!!
skinny shaming is hurtful too guys
does anyone else think [ironic kink du jour] is strange and freaky and gross?
saluting our bravest warriors who aren't afraid to stand up and advocate for the status quo
extremely cool that the removal of wolf protections in europe are being driven by an eu official having one of her horses killed by a wolf. literal cartoon villain shit
if you own horses you should be disqualified from participation in government
and after this happened, they put that specific wolf on a kill list and then proceeded to shoot the wrong wolf. geniuses
Environmental groups condemn EU Parliament’s approval to downgrade wolf protection as an attack on nature Today, the European Parliament app
For anyone who thought this is too stupid to be real, I'll remind you the year is 2025. The EU official in question is Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. She is the latest in a long line of idiot Germans to think the CDU disguises her evil.
okay here's a petition against this
If you are in Europe, for the love of god, please reblog and sign - these are a keystone species
More of my old(never finished) drawings: Beren and Lúthien sketch ♥
Trump and Republicans in Congress canceled funding for the organization earlier this year as a means of targeting PBS and NPR.
It's also important to note that PBS-funded programs are trying their best to stay afloat despite this! If this news angers you and you have the financial ability to donate, PLEASE throw some money at your local public broadcasting station! If you don't have a local PBS, consider Oregon Public Broadcasting, which has been in continuous operation for over 100 years (first radio, then TV).
Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to resc
^ this site will show you your local station as well as stations that have lost 50% or more of their total revenue
Went to the Aboriginal artifact exhibit in Chicago. And it’s interesting. How many blankets and masks and totem poles say ‘unknown source’, because every five seconds my mom would stop and point to something and say. “Pauline’s grandmother made that,” or, “That belongs to Mike’s family, I should call him” because. It’s all stolen
“These artifacts were excavated by archaeologists from a burial site in the 1970’s. The remains were returned for reinterment” Okay cool, cool cool. So you just, like. Dug up the grave of a respected family member, stripped them naked, mailed their body back to their family and kept everything they were lovingly put to rest in. Like a graverobbing bastard
Reminds me of the time when of the elders from my hometown started touching a totem pole in the Museum of Anthropology out at UBC and got yelled at by the staff, only to tell him that the pole had been stolen off of the front of her bighouse when she was ten years old.
Museum collectors did the equivalent of kidnapping a family member when they were away fishing.
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act requires all institutions that receive federal funding to repatriate remains and artifacts so if you can identify the source of something on display absolutely get a hold of that institute’s repatriation office
Important reminder that the Trump administration is defunding both local tribal programs (where we live they weren’t able to distribute herring eggs because their food sovereignty grant was cut) and repatriation work and the Truth and Reconciliation Commision which is responsible for researching residential school.
Birdie Sam (ShowMe_YourMask) has a comprehensive list of actionable items you can do and things you can read to educate yourself on indigenous issues.
Actions & resources
Sisyphus is exhausted. Day after day, he’s tasked with rolling an enormous boulder up the mountainside in his underworld neighborhood, just to find it right back where it started the next morning. He’s started tuning things out, which works, but it also causes him to miss out on the good while he ignores the bad.
But things change when the boulder speaks up, revealing himself to be a handsome living stone named Blimm. As attraction sizzles between Sisyphus and Blimm, Sisyphus must confront the reality of his situation, and find happiness in the chaos.
Now, the two of them are locked in a hardcore, erotic encounter… pounding happily.
This erotic tale is 4,100 words of sizzling human on gay sentient boulder action, including anal, blowjobs, rough sex, and living rock love.
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to the young couple in this photo, who met at a protest the day before—may your love last a lifetime… and another one, in the hopes that you will teach your children the way of justice. From LA to Palestine.
words and photo by ursula vari, taken on the 3rd day of the LA anti-ICE protests
bail funds, mental health resources, free legal help, and other resources for people affected by ICE and LA protests
STARTING TOMORROW
Scientists in weather and climate are live streaming for 100 hours to make their case to the American public.
They are live streaming, but engagement is necessary for it to work. SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE, RECORD THE STREAM, POST CLIPS OF IT THAT ARE FUNNY, if you can tune in, PLEASE DO!
This is something that has to be heard by as many people as possible. Put it on in the background! See if you can get other people to watch it! Do whatever you can do support those who are trying to be supported! Anything and everything helps!
TUNE IN HERE
article I posted screenshots of here
Tune into our 💯 hour Weather & Climate Livestream, brought to you by 200+ US meteorologists and climate scientists whose research is at risk
“There’s a pretty robust scientific consensus that when it gets warm, ice melts”
i can’t stop thinking about adriana smith. when roe was overturned i knew things were going to get hellish but turns out 50 years of scientific innovation means an entire new branch of soul crushing horror stories are now possible. we can’t possibly keep pretending we’ve advanced gender and racial equality when we’re using a dead black woman’s body as an incubator for a fetus. a society that does that is a failed society. fuck man im trying to hold on to some measure of hope here but its so hard.
i’ve seen hardly anybody on tumblr talking about this. say her fucking name. she was 30 years old. she was a nurse and is survived by a 7 year old son.
and yes, of course her family is responsible for the cost of keeping her on life support for three months and counting. her mother set up a g/f/ndme to help with the bills. please consider giving if you’re in a position to, they’ve barely raised $3600 at this point.
This journey has been deeply saddening and heartbreaking since F… April Newkirk needs your support for Help Adriana's Family During This Hea
It's extremely important to note that the picture of a heavily pregnant Adriana is from her first pregnancy. Adriana was only 9 weeks pregnant with this current fetus when she was declared braindead.
The ongoing usage of these photos in the media is so manipulative because they're trying to imply that Adriana was much further along in her pregnancy than she actually was, which downplays the sheer ghoulishness and senselessness of forcing a braindead woman's body to gestate a fetus for months on end.
Like, of course it would still be bad if she was in her last trimester, but we're talking about a fetus that was barely 2 months old when the mother died. It's extremely unlikely that this fetus will survive or, if they do, will be born with severe disabilities. And of course Adriana's family will get little to no help with that from the people who created this situation in the first place.
I started crying while reading about Adriana Smith and I haven't stopped.
Please help her family.
Adriana was mistreated and dismissed by medical professionals which ultimately led to her brain death, due to multiple blood clots. Because she was 9 weeks pregnant at the time and living in the state of Georgia, her family has been forced to keep her on life support, essentially becoming an incubator for her unborn child which her body must carry to term.
I'm disgusted with how she was treated when she was ill, despite her being a nurse. I'm heartbroken for her first child, her boyfriend, and her parents who were given no choice in keeping her body alive to sustain the pregnancy. Her family is uncertain about the health of the baby, whether he will live, whether he will be born with disabilities that will require many resources to provide him a good quality of life.
Our country was built by exploiting and denigrating black women's bodies. It's disturbing... ethically, spiritually, to think about Adriana within the historical context of medical experimentation on black women.
Again, please help her family prepare for whatever comes next. Her children need support and it's currently unclear (to me) whether her family will be responsible for the medical bills associated with life support and delivery of her child.
Help Adriana's Family During This Heartbreaking Journey
Went to an audubon society event for the first time :)
