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lmaooooo you guys just like to say things deadpan and that’s okay

it’s not that midwestern people aren’t nice but as a southerner i always feel sort of gaslit by the whole midwest nice thing because they’re not effusive with any emotion so like you leave an interaction with a midwesterner with no idea if they like or hate you. it’s more like midwest kind reserve

LMAOOOO no worries at all! (and thank you 💜)

yeah that’s the joke of the post. to put it charitably, i’ve written no adjective at all to humorously imply there was no good adjective i could put there. remarkable reading comprehension on your part

i don’t trust any commentary on the gothic that can’t admit that ann radcliffe is not very good. i think sometimes people wheel her out just to sound knowledgeable and i think hm….and are we going to acknowledge that….to put it charitably….mysteries of udolpho is surely one of the books ever written

wise people everywhere are waking up to this it would seem

one of my deeply held beliefs is that all cats are somewhere between a rat and a bunny but just how rat or how bunny varies from cat to cat

YEAH that is especially flavorful to me because in a sense by doing all that she made jace like her. because of it they are both the person who should be the unchallenged heir but for an accident of birth beyond their control they will fight all their lives and there will always be questions

even if they hold their kingdom together in their lifetime, what happens after? if they’ve had children with someone who the rest of the nobility considers unsuitable, their heirs will now have to fight the aforementioned war, and if they have no children there will in all likelihood also be a war

the linchpin of forbidden love with a feudal royal character is that it’s not about them. it’s not about whether they would die for love, it’s about whether they’ll let other people die for it. it’s about whether they would choose the ensuing civil war with their barons and all its carnage for love

it’s just down, i think. my app is fully updated and it’s not working right now

🤝🤝🤝

disabled people aren’t children but often when someone really hates kids their rage is specifically about having to be inconvenienced or annoyed by someone who is vulnerable in such a way that they can’t help it and require our collective care and that almost inherently implicates disabled people

my best guess is that either whoever was doing the wigs did not know how to install a wig on someone whose natural hair is short OR there was some issue with the fake ears, but that would be really strange given the wealth of other things with actors in elf ears without this problem

once someone points out to you that the reason a number of the wigs from the rings of power look really strange is because the actors have their sideburns shaved off unnaturally high like at times well above their ears you cannot unsee it

to hebrew then some yiddish-esque language that is both mannish and khuzdul might exist as well, which you could indicate on screen with yiddish
c) that idea is sort of supported because we know that khuzdul heavily influenced the languages of men
d) i could go on but that’s the gist

so there are layers here:
a) at least in the hobbit, it’s very clear that the images of jews that tolkien is drawing on are of historical ashkenazim, thus yiddish speaking
b) i don’t think it’s either yiddish or hebrew here moreso there is the suggestion that if khuzdul is analogous (cont’d)

i’m not saying yiddish speaking or accented dwarves would be bad it’s just when people suggest that for an adaptation i want to know if they are prepared for yiddish speaking dwarves to just read as german to 99% of audiences. i want to know if you’ve heard yiddish spoken

covid shows up in the weirdest ways sometimes like you’ll be watching sports highlight reels and they’ll pull off an absolutely insane play and it’s dead silent in there and you’re like ??????? until it clicks that this was in 2020 and no one could be there. like aw fuck forgot about the plague

well, he could probably be convinced to spy on gondorian political enemies for treats

YEAH. thorn did nothing to warrant this slander

#confirmed

huge fan of the email i received from the local animal hospital vaguely implying that my cat was in the armed forces at some point by saying they were honoring our heroes this veterans day with a 5% off sale for hawthorn the cat

lmao, happened to me today and not for the first time. i just nod and don’t correct them

oh that’s cool!!!

YESSSS

as always
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love when tolkien says things like “wolves there were, or creatures that walked in wolf-shapes”. love to be told there are wolves or at least Something that is choosing to look like a wolf

you see my vision here

it’s true in my heart. that’s someone’s zeyde right there